Anonymous wrote:I've stopped driving on Reno because it's jammed witlh traffic at certain times of the day. I find that Connecticut moves faster now.

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Anonymous wrote:Reno/34th in any case is considered an arterial corridor ('minor 'as opposed to 'major' like Connecticut). But with major arterial traffic growing (and future growth with Fannie Mae/Wegmans site redevelopment, 4000 Wisconsin, Cathedral Commons, Tenleytown mulitfamily projects, school campus enlargements, etc.), Wisconsin needs a reliever arterial. That's why widening and upgrading the Reno corridor should be a priority.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

I agree with some of your observations on Maryland drivers, but not your assumption that Marylanders are the only self-entitled ones driving on DC streets. I've seen plenty of aggressive driving on Reno Rd by cars with DC plates, including by those who use the endless turn lane as a passing lane to bypass slow or stopped traffic! It's a particularly charming habit in the vicinity of schools.

The "Maryland driver" joke last was funny like 10 years ago, before the dimwit Popville commenters discovered it and ran it into the ground. They still use it to this day and think it's the height of hip DC humor.

No one in DC thinks it is a joke or funny - mostly we are concerned about our kids getting killed by a stressed out commuter with their nose in their phone as they roll through stop signs on residential side streets. Unfortunately most MD drivers lack class or self awareness so we have to come on here and explain to you that your driving is neither funny nor legal nor ok.