It’s much worse than you realize. They are not going to expand from 2 to 3 lanes in Arlington County. Instead they will add lanes outside the beltway that will funnel even more traffic into the 2 lanes. I realize there’s already a bike path along 66 inside of Ballston, and that is mainly outside the wall and is staying there.
Thanks for straightening me out on that. I used to live in Vienna and I really really don’t miss that corridor outside the beltway.
Sadly, I was under the impression that Arlington had finally agreed to add an additional lane on its portion of 66, so it was wishful reading of the article on my part. The Arlington idiots will never budge on 66 even though there’s plenty of space for the additional lanes. They threw a fit over running HOT lanes on 395 through Arlington, all in the name of “air quality,” so we now have near empty HOV3 lanes and stifled traffic on the regular lanes that just spit fumes (see https://www.surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2017/latest-research-reveals-sitting-traffic-jams-officially-bad-you) all the way to the Fairfax line. So stupid.
They do so many ridiculous and expensive things here in the name of social engineering, such as turning 4 lane roads into 2 lanes w/ a bike lane, unnecessary side walk expansion, speed bumps, etc. They even tried to turn an access road along Rte 50 into a bike path that would have blocked not just parking but driveway & garage entrances for homeowners — for a 300 yard bike path that began and ended nowhere. Despicable.