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Expect years of construction: Md. Beltway, I-270 toll lanes to be built in phases from Legion Bridge
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| November 19, 2018
| Max Smith
Posted on 12/15/2018 10:18:54 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“That construction is due to start next year, and be completed in 2026.”
Yeah, right. Between government incompetence and corruption and union treachery more like 2126. The pyramids were probably built faster than this boondoggle will be.
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posted on
12/15/2018 10:35:17 AM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What is most needed is a new bridge over the Potomac, which would connect I-370 and the “Inter-County Connector” (MD 200) with routes 7 and 28 at the Fairfax-Loudoun county line in VA.
The NIMBYs in MD don’t want it; there is no crossing over the Potomac for 40 miles between the Beltway and US 15 between Frederick and Leesburg (if you don’t count the tiny General Jubal Early 6 car rope ferry at White’s Ferry).
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posted on
12/15/2018 10:49:01 AM PST
by
nd76
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
Its the only way to be sure.
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posted on
12/15/2018 10:51:24 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh, good!
Your tax dollars are for roads...
But thank God, our government,
in partnership with private companies, (Bayer? Krupp?)
Has seen fit to find new ways to collect more money from you,
so that poor people making $20/hr or so, or more, or less,
can wait in traffic,
while rich people
(and government employees, (of course) with their special "passes"
(paid for by taxpayers,)
at $2, then $5, then $20 a go...
(Where's the Verrazano now?)
whiz through their commutes like the Ubermenschen they know they are,
thanks to your local governments...
Obsessed with the important things, like diversity, and equality.
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:28:19 AM PST
by
golux
To: nd76
Agree on the bridge, there is no other option that could reduce traffic on the beltway and 270 anywhere near as much.
As for congestion relief, I believe that one of the more cost effective options is to advertise the MARC trains in the Frederic through Clarksburg area. Would get maximum effects within about 3 Months of choosing to spend the money, but also need to have low expectations for maximum congestion relief.
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:30:28 AM PST
by
Fraxinus
(My opinion, worth what you paid.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:36:02 AM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Bonemaker
And no Geaseman to listen too....
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:38:38 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: nd76
Actually White’s Ferry holds alot more than 6 cars. I always thought it was small, but it ain’t THAT small.
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:42:39 AM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Bonemaker
Wasn’t that from some “incident” on the highway a few years back? Like a criminal car chase or something?
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posted on
12/15/2018 11:43:54 AM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: central_va
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posted on
12/15/2018 12:18:36 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: central_va
You can catch Podcasts from the “Grease” now.
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posted on
12/15/2018 12:24:10 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: Boiler Plate
Greaseman made the commute bearable. He was on DC 101.
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posted on
12/15/2018 12:31:07 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Get me the FO of this area.
To: the OlLine Rebel
I love the Ferry and Point of Rocks Bridge to Lovetsville is a nice ride.
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posted on
12/15/2018 1:09:26 PM PST
by
cnsmom
To: nd76
The 301 bridge over the Potomac needs replacement as well
To: nd76
Exactly correct. The wealthy elites who live anywhere near the Potomac River do not want any big roads near their estates. It is crazy (evil) that a person going from Gaithersburg to Dulles has to go down and get on the DC. Beltway.
There also needs to be an interstate that goes from New York to Richmond without using the DC beltway. Again its a NIMBY situation, though here I think that its more of a swamp power rather than an elite thing.
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posted on
12/15/2018 2:24:55 PM PST
by
Freee-dame
(Best election ever! 2016)
To: Palio di Siena
Not for the feint of heart.
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posted on
12/15/2018 2:28:47 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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