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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as we get interchanges on 355 from the exit at the Beltway up through Urbana.[/quote]
Again, what will happen to the thousands of businesses and residences that currently line this roadway?[/quote]

I don't care. I just want a limited access highway from the Beltway up to Urbana.[/quote]
Trolls going to troll, I guess.

270 and 355 are critically important pieces of road infrastructure for the county. At minimum it should not be controversial to widen 270 and also maintain the current number of 355 travel lanes. If you actually cared about the residents and businesses, that is. [/quote]

It is controversial because widening the road is a waste of money and doesn't address the problem.[/quote]
What do you think the problem is?[/quote]

Too many people dependent on single occupancy vehicles. Maryland needs to invest in serious mass transit to connect Frederick to DC; Columbia to DC and the intermediate areas like Silver Spring, Bethesda, Rockville etc.  Building more roads leads to having more cars sitting in the traffic they create. If the goal is to move people, then build infrastructure that does that.[/quote]
Your problem is that this infrastructure is successful. Successful infrastructure is infrastructure that people use. Expanding capacity means that more people can use it. Building more roads leads to more people being able to get where they want to go to engage in important economic activity. [/quote]

I am old enough to remember when 270 was two lanes in each direction to Rockville. Every 5-10 years, it has been expanded to the point now that it is what, 12 lanes? And yet, it is still overcrowded and backed up for many hours every day. So building more lanes doesn't solve the problem. We cannot keep expanding lanes until the whole planet is lanes. It just isn't sustainable. How many lanes is enough?[/quote]

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