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I-66 HO/T Lanes
cpzilliacus:
--- Quote from: vdeane on January 23, 2015, 11:42:48 PM ---Must resist temptation to make I-366 joke...
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Suggest it should be I-666.
oscar:
--- Quote from: cpzilliacus on January 24, 2015, 07:16:11 PM ---Suggest it should be I-666.
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That would've been a good number for the Capital Beltway, to warn the unwary of what lies within.
froggie:
Upcoming public meetings this week in Vienna, Centreville, Haymarket, and Fairfax. WTOP has the specifics, but there's an error in the story: VDOT is looking at two general alternatives, not three as WTOP reported, and only one of those two provides median space for future transit.
1995hoo:
Looking at the diagram for Alternative 2B at the Beltway, I can't help but laugh ruefully at the ramp proposed to lead from the Inner Loop HO/T lanes to the westbound I-66 mainline. It looks very similar to the configuration of the old pre-HO/T left-side exit from the Inner Loop to I-66 as it was reconfigured back in the early 1990s when the left HOV lane was designated and VDOT didn't want general-purpose traffic entering via the HOV lane. That portion of the ramp was, of course, demolished in 2012, so in effect this proposal would restore a modified version of the same ramp. Damn.
The flyover for general-purpose traffic from the Inner Loop to westbound I-66 looks like it would be one heck of a ramp. It seems like, given the more confined space involved, it would likely have a steeper grade than the flyovers in Springfield. I hope VDOT would learn from the ramp-freezing incidents experienced several times in Springfield and would consider some sort of system to prevent that sort of problem here.
cpzilliacus:
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on January 26, 2015, 12:00:42 PM ---Looking at the diagram for Alternative 2B at the Beltway, I can't help but laugh ruefully at the ramp proposed to lead from the Inner Loop HO/T lanes to the westbound I-66 mainline. It looks very similar to the configuration of the old pre-HO/T left-side exit from the Inner Loop to I-66 as it was reconfigured back in the early 1990s when the left HOV lane was designated and VDOT didn't want general-purpose traffic entering via the HOV lane. That portion of the ramp was, of course, demolished in 2012, so in effect this proposal would restore a modified version of the same ramp. Damn.
The flyover for general-purpose traffic from the Inner Loop to westbound I-66 looks like it would be one heck of a ramp. It seems like, given the more confined space involved, it would likely have a steeper grade than the flyovers in Springfield. I hope VDOT would learn from the ramp-freezing incidents experienced several times in Springfield and would consider some sort of system to prevent that sort of problem here.
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I have driven that old ramp enough to have seen an assortment of disasters, mishaps and breakdowns, though it seemed almost invariably involving heavy commercial vehicles (often dump trucks and refuse packer trucks - at least one HAZMAT tank tractor-trailer combination) which would presumably be banned from using that ramp, as they always have been from the I-495 Express Lanes.
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