Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is payback for the Rockland estate owners - the Brown family - shutting down White's Ferry.

The owners of Rockland have long funded efforts to prevent VA-15 from being widened, they started the Friends of Route 15 that controlled the Loudoun Board of Supervisors.

https://loudounnow.com/2019/07/30/betsey-jean-smith-brown-1929-2019/

The need to widen US 15 is much larger than one property owner.

I know. But the wealthy land owners of that area had outsized influence on the BoS for decades. This is Old Virginia at work, the rest of us are mere interlopers.

[quote=Anonymous]Loudoun is very much still retains its country and rural vibe, outside of a few pockets the county is engulfed in a sea of red. Hell, it borders West Virginia for god sake! I consider it very much still culturally southern, like much of virginia. [/quote]

You know WV isn't considered Southern to most, right?! Not since the Civil War.

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun has never had a rural vibe.

+1

Anonymous wrote:This is payback for the Rockland estate owners - the Brown family - shutting down White's Ferry.

The owners of Rockland have long funded efforts to prevent VA-15 from being widened, they started the Friends of Route 15 that controlled the Loudoun Board of Supervisors.

https://loudounnow.com/2019/07/30/betsey-jean-smith-brown-1929-2019/

The need to widen US 15 is much larger than one property owner.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun has never had a rural vibe.

You obviously haven’t seen all of Loudoun.

Seriously.

Clearly Belmont Ridge Rd is as far west as this poster has ever ventured.

Look at Carolina Pit Bros in Ashburn. The auction barn on Belmont Ridge hasn't yet turned into a Sheetz .

This is payback for the Rockland estate owners - the Brown family - shutting down White's Ferry.

The owners of Rockland have long funded efforts to prevent VA-15 from being widened, they started the Friends of Route 15 that controlled the Loudoun Board of Supervisors.

https://loudounnow.com/2019/07/30/betsey-jean-smith-brown-1929-2019/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's space to bypass Lucketts to the north if they want to with a possible interchange/overpass at 662 leading into the town

I would think they would go with a bypass. Makes the most sense in the short and long run.

+1

VDOT does this all of the time. Look at all of the business routes across the state. They will likely plan something that doesn't destroy the center of Lucketts.

Anonymous wrote:There's space to bypass Lucketts to the north if they want to with a possible interchange/overpass at 662 leading into the town

I would think they would go with a bypass. Makes the most sense in the short and long run.

There's space to bypass Lucketts to the north if they want to with a possible interchange/overpass at 662 leading into the town

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that they’ll seize and the property of the Luckett’s Store? That sits rights on the road.

Yeah at Lucketts there are two houses right across from each other at the light. How can they widen there? Both are so close to the road.

I do think 15 needs widened. The bridge should be at 28, not 15 though

Does this mean that they’ll seize and the property of the Luckett’s Store? That sits rights on the road.

There are some farms up that way but also a lot of houses with stupidly large lawns.

^^I'm as tired of the wineries, the McMansions and the Range Rovers as you are. My neighbor down the road is a generational farmer. I love to see his hay-making machinery making its slow way down the road, with a long line behind him of BMWs and Yukons. Yukons and Suburbans are as thick around here as Toyota and Honda sedans are in Fairfax. The conspicuous consumption is over the top.

[quote=Anonymous]Loudoun is very much still retains its country and rural vibe, outside of a few pockets the county is engulfed in a sea of red. Hell, it borders West Virginia for god sake! I consider it very much still culturally southern, like much of virginia. [/quote]

Eastern Loudoun has been transformed into an exurban hellscape. Western Loudoun remains less dense, but has been overrun by wealthy people who build palatial estates or open yet another stuipdly-named substandard winery. The country, rural and Southern vibes left Loudoun long ago.

Loudoun is very much still retains its country and rural vibe, outside of a few pockets the county is engulfed in a sea of red. Hell, it borders West Virginia for god sake! I consider it very much still culturally southern, like much of virginia.