ptEDM Wrote:
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> A bit tricky to learn to drive in the DC Metro/FFX
> area these days.
>
> Too much traffic, too much in a rush, too many
> wide intersections these days.
>
> For getting started, larger Church parking lots,
> Business/Industrial Parks and Cemeteries are good
> placed to start. Larger shopping centers/big box
> store parking lots on early Sunday mornings.
>
> I actually found GW Parkway or Clara Barton
> Parkway on weekends not bad, only 50 MPH and
> limited access with no trucks.
>
> Also go to Potomac Maryland, up MacArthur Blvd to
> Brickyard Road and cross Falls Road. There is a
> development in Potomac where the lots are 5 Acres
> and very little traffic. Easy to drive for up to
> an hour with lots of stops and turns. Use the GPS
> or a map to find your way end to end in this
> location.
>
>
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.00653,-77.226566,1
> 5z
>
> Also if your kids get up early enough we used to
> run up the Beltway to I-270 to the Krispy Kreme
> store across from Shady Grove Road for Hot
> Doughnut Runs on early Sun morning. Was a
> destination and fun thing to do, not much traffic
> on the road before 8-9 am and if needed the local
> lanes can be used on I-270.
>
> Also the Montgomery County Mid County Connector.
> It is a toll road, but you can drive 10-15 miles
> on direction at highway speeds with few if any
> trucks and on off peak times during the weekends
> it is not so busy. Just make sure you do not
> speed, the MCC has their own Police force that
> loves to enforce speeding.
>
> If needed change drivers heading into Maryland
> consider changing at Montgomery Mall or Georgetown
> Pike
I learned to drive in Northern NJ and we were off the side streets by the 3rd lesson in drivers ed. Busy crowded streets in Bloomfield and newark and the final lesson you go to Drive on Rt. 3 with a no merge entrance and Jersey barriers 3 feet on either side of the highway. Once youve done that you are set for life (if you survive).
If you are going to really teach them you have to drive with them under all conditions and all traffic.