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Old 10-24-2010, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Brambleton, VA
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As the crow flies I am about one mile from the Old Dominion Speedway. I knew when I bought the house the track was there. They were even running some cars there this morning. At times I can hear the announcer. I've been in my current house since 86 and have never made a complaint to the police regarding the noise. It just boggles the mind that people complain on something that's been there for many years before most homes.
I went to Georgetown for undergrad, and the "town vs. gown" animosity present when I was in school in the mid-90s has only escalated since then. It seems like the biggest complainers are people who recently bought multi-million dollar rowhouses a few blocks from the school's main gates. Um, hello...the school has been there since 1789. Sorry you didn't do your due diligence.

 
Old 10-25-2010, 07:27 AM
 
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RR. Where the hell did this come from? Never mind. Don't care.
As usual, he thinks he knows what people in Gainesville are thinking when they moved there - he should get a job as a psychic! No, we did not complain about the infrastructure - THAT upgrade was planned TEN YEARS AGO! We knew it was coming! For goodness sakes, let's get our facts straight! Tired of hearing someone think they know what people in Gainesville get concerned about. That decision to upgrade that intersection was made years before most people in Gainesville moved here!!!!

Traffic in Gainesville's a pleasure. Try Manassas on the other hand... AGAIN, for the 3rd or 4th time, locals in Gainesville know how to completely avoid that intersection no matter where they are going and while they are happy the construction's finally getting started (after being planned for a very very long time) - it is not something they are "complaining about" or concerned about. The newspapers maybe make it sound like more than it is so to make headlines and get ad dollars. Whatever, it's time to set the story straight from some postings on this forum about Gainesville. Five years ago in fact, Brookfield (one of the builders here) offered to start construction right away on that intersection by paying for it in exchange for a huge chunk of land. The county wisely decided against it, as that would have been a huge neighborhood of 2000 homes or so on the eastern side of Linton Hall Road just south of the VA Gateway shopping center. Again, that upgrade was first started being planned years ago - got delayed due to money issues obviously.

Why did Gainesville even come into this discussion? That's what I'd like to know!
 
Old 10-25-2010, 07:29 AM
 
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Actually, the traffic used to flow through Gainesville, save for the RR crossing. It's not the same thing since traffic is a regional issue. Now, as this thread is discussing noise complaints, as are the referenced areas used to try to introduce Gainesville to this thread; unless there's a similar pre-existing noise issuue, Gainesville is a topic for another thread.
Understood, but someone else started the discussion on Gainesville and once again posted some inaccuracies that need to be corrected. You're right - it should not have been introduced into this thread!
 
Old 10-25-2010, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Gainesville, VA
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Why did Gainesville even come into this discussion? That's what I'd like to know!
Just another thread highjacking by RR. Guess he can't get Gainesville out of his system.
 
Old 10-25-2010, 08:45 AM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Understood, but someone else started the discussion on Gainesville and once again posted some inaccuracies that need to be corrected. You're right - it should not have been introduced into this thread!
Neither should your opinion/comments on another poster.

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Just another thread highjacking by RR. Guess he can't get Gainesville out of his system.
Don't you think you're hijacking the thread by referring to him? Ignore list people!
 
Old 10-25-2010, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Home is where the heart is
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Ignore list people!
It is never wise to ignore statements that are inaccurate.

Since there is (apparently) still more to be said about the Linton-Hall project, I'm copying a few of these posts to a new thread, where it can be discussed in an appropriate place. Hope that's ok.
 
Old 10-25-2010, 09:40 AM
 
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Neither should your opinion/comments on another poster.



Don't you think you're hijacking the thread by referring to him? Ignore list people!
Oh, so it's OK for him to make comments on other posters but not me. Get real. He hijacked the thread, not me. Impossible to ignore him as too many people quote his posts. Your comment's equally off-topic. I was correcting false information about Gainesville from someone who continues to ignore the facts, even though several people have stated them repeatedly. That project did not cost $500 million, was not just planned recently in response to "complaints by people who just moved to Gainesville".

Why do you keep defending him. He seems to do a good enough job of that all by himself so I fail to understand why you have to chime in each time - just like you don't understand my posts. Fair is fair - you can't have it both ways!

Since when were you appointed moderator - telling people what they should/should not post and who they should ignore, etc. etc.? RR can defend himself, so again, don't understand why you have to chime in like an echo everytime he gets in an argument with someone.
 
Old 10-25-2010, 09:41 AM
 
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It is never wise to ignore statements that are inaccurate.

Since there is (apparently) still more to be said about the Linton-Hall project, I'm copying a few of these posts to a new thread, where it can be discussed in an appropriate place. Hope that's ok.
Agree 100%! We're supposed to ignore false statements and leave them sit here on the forum unchallenged? Why doesn't Alanboy tell RR to ignore statements that are inaccurate? Again, he can't have it both ways!
 
Old 10-25-2010, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC & New York
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Thread closed. I do hope that the information was useful to TeeByrd86 as the OP intended.
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