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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in Vienna and for the most part avoid driving up and down Maple Avenue through town.  I live on the south side.  If I need to Giant or Whole Foods, I drive through the residential streets and enter the shopping centers that way.  The library, I enter off Center.  If I'm going to Church Street, I go on Center and cross over Maple.  If I'm going to Oakton, I go on Courthouse Road until it hits 123.  If I'm going to Tysons, I travel Locust to Branch Ave. and make a right on 123 there.

And actually for many activities, we walk.  So for the most part, I do not deal with the traffic on Maple that people outside of Town of Vienna complain about.[/quote]

Depending on which side of Park you live in on, the various routes you are describing require additional detours to get where you are trying to go while minimizing time on Maple.  For example, if streets like Locust were through streets that didn't dead-end at Center, the traffic on Maple would not be as bad as it is. And Branch still dumps you out on a congested section on Maple/123 well shy of Tysons.

I have no doubt that the experience of Vienna residents, particularly SAHMs, is different from that of, say, a worker in Tysons who lives in Fairfax Station and whose entire perception of Vienna is based on his or her rush-hour commutes on 123.  But I also don't know anyone in real life who has lived in Vienna and not wished the traffic on Maple was not so heavy.[/quote]

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