Re: Beltway Ramp Closure in McLean (another VDOT experiment)
Posted by:
Westbound
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Date: July 23, 2018 03:07PM
193 driver Wrote:
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> You know this might nort be the worst idea...
>
> I live in Vienna near wolf trap and sometimes I'll
> take 193 home from Georgetown if 123 looks to be
> slow
>
> and it is a shitty intersection. with balls hill
> road right there there is a lot of traffic trying
> to get on the beltway. Oftem times the traffic
> turning left onto the inner loop or traffic
> crossing balls hill to get onto the inner loop
> will block the box, which prevents cars on 193
> from continuing on towards great falls, which ends
> up backing up traffic on 193
>
> before closing the ramp. I would first prevent
> balls hill road traffic from turning left (west
> bound) onto 193 and see if that helps with the
> grid lock. and also stopping east bound 193
> traffic from turning left onto the inner loop. IE
> keep the ramp open for west bound 193 traffic
So eastbound traffic would merely pass the ramp, then make a U turn or enter local streets to change direction.
Balls Hill traffic would merely turn right on 193, then use local streets to change direction.
Great “solution.”