Friday, March 31, 2006
TOLLROADSnews: Congestion on MD I-270 kills sex - toll lane upgrade urgent
2006.03.30
Congestion on MD I-270 kills sex - toll lane upgrade urgent
Here's a hot one to lead off a congestion story - a guy with the net name Buggs in Frederick MD on an escort chat site looking to buy "pampering" and a "kinky time" from a lady. He's prepared to travel but he won't go south down I-270 to Montgomery County, Washington DC and northern Virginia because of the traffic congestion. Buggs is willing however to go way east to Columbia or over the mountains west to Hagerstown on I-70.
"Just not down 270. Not going to happen," Buggs insists.
No wonder.
20k versus 8k veh/day/lane
I-270 is the prime highway disgrace of the Washington-Baltimore metro area, at least in its far northern section. 2x2 lanes it carries 80k veh/day. That's 20k veh/day/lane which is Los Angeles freeway style loading. So of course it gets LA style congestion.
Frederick has doubled in population in the past 25 years but this main highway linking it with the Washington DC metro area has stayed the same in its northern 14 miles (22km) Clarksburg to Frederick. South of Clarksburg I-270 was widened to 2x3 lanes maybe 5 years ago, and in the 1990s the southern segment was rebuilt from 2x3 lanes to 2x4 lanes with 2x2 collector-distributor lanes as well from Gaithersburg to Rockville.
East-west I-70 most of its length east to Baltimore is 2x3 lanes and outside Frederick carries about 50k veh/day or 8k veh/day/lane.
Buggs quite sensibly chooses to travel to a lady on an 8k veh/day/lane highway but he won't do a 20k veh/day/lane road.
(This 20k veh/day/lane congestion in MD raises the question - Is there still sex in LA?)
I cannot add much to this story, except to verify that Maryland's I-270 is often horribly congested - even at off-peak times. The "north" section, between Md. 121 (Clarksburg) and Md. 85 (Buckeystown Pike) is he same four lanes that it was when the freeway was opened to traffic - in 1956.
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Congestion on MD I-270 kills sex - toll lane upgrade urgent
Here's a hot one to lead off a congestion story - a guy with the net name Buggs in Frederick MD on an escort chat site looking to buy "pampering" and a "kinky time" from a lady. He's prepared to travel but he won't go south down I-270 to Montgomery County, Washington DC and northern Virginia because of the traffic congestion. Buggs is willing however to go way east to Columbia or over the mountains west to Hagerstown on I-70.
"Just not down 270. Not going to happen," Buggs insists.
No wonder.
20k versus 8k veh/day/lane
I-270 is the prime highway disgrace of the Washington-Baltimore metro area, at least in its far northern section. 2x2 lanes it carries 80k veh/day. That's 20k veh/day/lane which is Los Angeles freeway style loading. So of course it gets LA style congestion.
Frederick has doubled in population in the past 25 years but this main highway linking it with the Washington DC metro area has stayed the same in its northern 14 miles (22km) Clarksburg to Frederick. South of Clarksburg I-270 was widened to 2x3 lanes maybe 5 years ago, and in the 1990s the southern segment was rebuilt from 2x3 lanes to 2x4 lanes with 2x2 collector-distributor lanes as well from Gaithersburg to Rockville.
East-west I-70 most of its length east to Baltimore is 2x3 lanes and outside Frederick carries about 50k veh/day or 8k veh/day/lane.
Buggs quite sensibly chooses to travel to a lady on an 8k veh/day/lane highway but he won't do a 20k veh/day/lane road.
(This 20k veh/day/lane congestion in MD raises the question - Is there still sex in LA?)
I cannot add much to this story, except to verify that Maryland's I-270 is often horribly congested - even at off-peak times. The "north" section, between Md. 121 (Clarksburg) and Md. 85 (Buckeystown Pike) is he same four lanes that it was when the freeway was opened to traffic - in 1956.
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