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- From: walrus@bessel.umd.edu (Grig Larson)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Dulles Toll Road
- Message-ID: <15048@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:35:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.154638.19536@eco.twg.com> <1992Aug17.215833.13048@openage.openage.com> <23813@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- In article <23813@oasys.dt.navy.mil> smennitt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Mennitt) writes:
- >In dc.general, ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
- >>
- >>P.S. there would not be a toll road if earlier public officals
- >>hadn't screwed up when the original Dulles access road was built
- >>and agreed to pay for the extra lanes.
- >
- > I had heard that the Dulles Access Road, similar to Dulles Airport,
- >was bought and paid for by the FAA or some other non-VA entity. It
- >predated most of the residences of Herndon, and almost all of Reston.
- >When the big developing came, a compromise was made to build the extra
- >lanes outside of the Access road to handle the new commuters at commuter
- >expense. I suspect that VA didn't support the Planned Community Idea
- >and didn't want to shell out bucks for a Reston Access Road. This is
- >just my opinion, I'd like to hear more on this.
- > Another question is why the Restonians, who have given up the expensive
- >higher crime, short commute living locations, are now snivelling about
- >moving into an area that has always had one toll road as its only access
- >to the outside world. What's next, complaining about the airport?
-
- Well, I just moved to Reston this year, and I think I have settled in by
- now. It's not so bad, I guess you have to be rich and spoiled to complain
- about the Toll Road, because I am poor and have to work hard just to break
- even, and I find the road to be an absolute boon. I mean, if you don't
- want to pay 75 cents, you can always shortcut Route 7 to 495, or a lot
- of other roads to skip the toll road.
-
- Yes, there is a fair share of snivelling complaints about the road, and
- the airport isn't so bad here. I used to live next to National, and man!
- Those planes flew low. Dulles seems quiet at Reston, but I don't know
- what it's like out in say, Sterling.
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