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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you live out in the boondocks or (sometimes) in a forsaken area with declining population, buying within a mile of an Interstate highway is a dumb idea. The road will inevitably be improved. The road will inevitably be widened — often many times. It’s been like this for decades and it’s going to be like this for decades to come, even after the paradigmatic shift to electric vehicles.

I have no sympathy for the folks in McLean and Great Falls. They try to sound so smart and educated in their lawsuit attacking the scope of the project. Maybe they should have applied those “smarts” when choosing a place to live.
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We live in McLean and the project doesn't affect or bother us.  If the plaintiffs think it's in their interests to litigate, that's fine, but we're also mindful that at various times people in that area lobbied for other changes such as shutting down the northbound exit off Georgetown Pike onto 495 entirely.  Had VDOT acceded to their requests, which it did not, it would have magnified existing traffic bottlenecks in Tysons and simply diverted traffic to other parts of McLean that also have plenty of traffic.  It's the price you pay for living near major commuter routes. [/quote]

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