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Old 04-09-2010, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Home is where the heart is
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Officials are urging people who work in DC to take leave, telework or work at an alternate site in the suburbs Monday and Tuesday when the nuclear safety summit is expected to tie up downtown traffic.

This is so crazy to me. Instead of asking all those workers to move to the suburbs, wouldn't it be easier to move the meeting to the suburbs? Why do they have to hold it in DC?

They should move it out to one of the campuses in Loudoun that are away from traffic and other businesses. For one thing, those campuses are much more easily secured. The National Conference Center in Lansdowne, for example, is on a huge campus with a perimeter that woud be fairly simple to secure. Janelia Research Center is mostly underground, which would make it even easier to keep secure. It would be also be easier to keep protestors away from both of these campuses, IMO.

Using either of these sites would cause much less disruption to traffic and the daily lives of people who live and work nearby. Just sayin'.

Federal Eye - Feds urged to telework during nuclear summit
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Old 04-09-2010, 09:52 AM
 
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don't know. it's the same when the world bank has conferences in d.c.
who knows.
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Old 04-09-2010, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Madisonville, LA
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They should have it at the NCTC in Shepardstown.
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Old 04-09-2010, 11:34 AM
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The goal is to have the summit in the capital of United States.

Not in the middle of farm land.

Duh.
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Old 04-09-2010, 11:53 AM
 
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Why do you want to push your problems out to us in Loudoun County? You live and work in capital and should EXPECT to be inconveinanced.
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Old 04-09-2010, 11:56 AM
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Why do you want to push your problems out to us in Loudoun County? You live and work in capital and should EXPECT to be inconveinanced.
its only two days, people can deal with it.
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Old 04-09-2010, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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Why do you want to push your problems out to us in Loudoun County? You live and work in capital and should EXPECT to be inconveinanced.
I'd rather have nuclear summit traffic on Route 7 nowhere near my house than stupid Redskins training camp traffic. The Waxpool/Loudoun County Parkway intersection is bad enough, but I avoid it completely during Redskins camp.
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Old 04-09-2010, 12:20 PM
 
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Why do you want to push your problems out to us in Loudoun County? You live and work in capital and should EXPECT to be inconveinanced.
I think the poster who suggested this actually might live out that way?
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Old 04-09-2010, 12:20 PM
 
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Why do you want to push your problems out to us in Loudoun County? You live and work in capital and should EXPECT to be inconveinanced.
Actually, I'm a fellow Loudounite. Janelia's just a few miles from my house, so it would be much closer to me than to you. It wouldn't inconvenience me at all to have it there or at the NCC.

Both facilities are well removed from the main roads, so they wouldn't have to close any roads except service roads for the campuses. Traffic on Rt. 7 might be tied up for an hour while the people attending the conference were escorted in, and that would be about it. There are hotel rooms in the NCC, so the attendees could stay right there.

And Loudoun facilities are fairly close to Dulles, so they can quickly get in and out.
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Old 04-09-2010, 12:23 PM
 
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They should have it at Tyson's galleria mall, that way they can go straight to the shopping afterwards
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