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View Poll Results: Which ONE improvement would you most prefer?
Adding HOT (tolled lanes, free for HOV) lanes to the American Legion Bridge 0 0%
Adding general purpose lanes to the American Legion Bridge 0 0%
Building a new bridge (or tunnel?) between upper Montco and Loudoun 16 50.00%
Building a direct Metro line, probably between Bethesda and Tyson's Corner 11 34.38%
Having a network of buses from various MD locations to various VA locations 5 15.63%
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-15-2018, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Howard County, Maryland
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For those who live in Maryland and commute to Northern Virginia (or vice versa), if you could pick ONE (just one, please) single infrastructure improvement from among the following choices, which would you prefer?
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Old 11-15-2018, 11:33 AM
 
Location: PG
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Metro over Woodrow Wilson bridge OR
Extending express lane on 495 (at Woodrow Wilson Bridge and American Legion Memorial Bridge).
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Old 11-15-2018, 02:23 PM
 
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The 3rd option. It take far longer to get from Gaithersburg to Leesburg than it should. They Should take the ICC to Dulles.
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Old 11-15-2018, 03:54 PM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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The 3rd option. It take far longer to get from Gaithersburg to Leesburg than it should. They Should take the ICC to Dulles.
This. It may not ever happen. But it is absurd that Maryland has not yet added another Potomac crossing west of 495.
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Old 11-15-2018, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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For me personally it would be pretty awesome if they made the approaches to it as well as the Key Chain bridge itself a freeway - or if they created another Potomac crossing connecting GW Parkway and Langley to Glen Echo and beyond. But that's pretty specific to me.



In general this metropolitan area is lacking a metro "ring" line that connects the suburban areas and removes the need to go into D.C. first for train users commuting suburb to suburb (an ever increasing number of people I'd figure). I mean it's not even just NoVa to MD or vice versa..consider the path you currently have to take from Silver Spring to Bethesda metro if you use the rail.
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Old 11-16-2018, 08:30 AM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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I think all of those would be good, but a bridge from MD-200 to VA-28 is the one I would choose.
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Old 11-18-2018, 03:58 PM
 
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I think all of those would be good, but a bridge from MD-200 to VA-28 is the one I would choose.
Since I have friends and family who live in Montgomery Co and Loudoun Co, the Bridge from MD-200 to VA-28
I concur would have a big impact on our region and I would choose as well.
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Old 11-19-2018, 11:10 AM
 
Location: Bowie but New Orleans born and bred
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This. It may not ever happen. But it is absurd that Maryland has not yet added another Potomac crossing west of 495.
One reason is MD is afraid of more residents using it to catch flights out of Dulles instead of BWI
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Old 11-19-2018, 10:11 PM
 
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One reason is MD is afraid of more residents using it to catch flights out of Dulles instead of BWI
BWI would still be closer for most people in Montgomery County.
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Old 11-20-2018, 03:50 AM
 
Location: That star on your map in the middle of the East Coast, DMV
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One reason is MD is afraid of more residents using it to catch flights out of Dulles instead of BWI
Yea I've heard that notion before, but I don't think this is worth not connecting the two largest counties in the region more. BWI sees about 4-5 million more flights yearly than Dulles and is already cheaper. It's also sandwiched between way more population in an immediate radius of the airport than Dulles. But lacking in enough infrastructure to sustain your regional population growth and traffic improvements, should not come at the cost of being afraid a million more people would fly out of Dulles per year.

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