what is it like there? is it considered like an isolated little town? I noticed they have a high school and elementary school. are there people who say they are "from the spur" or "spur-ites"? Does anyone call it "Spur-Town"? any other theories about this place? I notice there are many defense contractors located inside the I-270 spur. Could the spur actually be a secret government compound? Are there any secret tunnels leading from the metro to the spur?

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holy shit, the grosvenor metro is right next to it. definitely a tunnel complex connecting it to Lockheed, possibly the "high school" also.

this looks like a replica of MI6 headquarters.
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wow wtf lol

There are waaaaay too many hotels in the spur... that is suspicious. I bet the highways surrounding this area would serve as a barrier in case the place needed to be fortified. Lots of housing.

There is also an electrical substation just outside the northwest perimeter. How convenient.

Oh my God. The professional association for photogrammetry (satellite imagery analysis) is located inside the spur, southeast corner. Holy shit.
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and the US Composting Council, whatever the fuck that is. sounds like a cover.

I was born inside the Spur. As a youngster, no one talked about life outside of it. Instead of dollars, companies paid 'spurs', which could be spent in company stores (also called 'spurs'). We were only able to watch San Antio Spurs games and Tottenham matches.

We were finally set free in 2008 by Obama.

Original Spuridian Wrote:
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> I was born inside the Spur. As a youngster, no
> one talked about life outside of it. Instead of
> dollars, companies paid 'spurs', which could be
> spent in company stores (also called 'spurs'). We
> were only able to watch San Antio Spurs games and
> Tottenham matches.
>
> We were finally set free in 2008 by Obama.

sounds rough.

southwest corner appears to have communications equipment. interestingly you can see the wall along I-495 at the bottom of this picture. very useful feature for repelling a ground attack / seige.
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Hmm, the sign says WMAL radio. I don't know how that fits into this.
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IBM Federal Systems is still there or used to be there. I think there was an employee shooting or disturbance there long ago. Marriott is supposed to have a very nice cafereria.

Those are the fucking WMAL towers that have been there forever! Freaking losers!

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> Those are the fucking WMAL towers that have been
> there forever! Freaking losers!

THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU THINK

yes

Pooks Hill 4 Life bitches.

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Original Spuridian Wrote:
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> I was born inside the Spur. As a youngster, no
> one talked about life outside of it. Instead of
> dollars, companies paid 'spurs', which could be
> spent in company stores (also called 'spurs'). We
> were only able to watch San Antio Spurs games and
> Tottenham matches.
>
> We were finally set free in 2008 by Obama.


Did Steve Spurrier come in to coach youth football there?

The spur is home to a unit of patriot missile systems and has a underground silo carrying something 2x as strong as tsar bomba.

I worked in the 270 spur area or a telcom firm. Parking was an issue. Maryland in an effort to encourage car pooling and use of public transportation limited the number of parking spaces allowed for large office buildings. This presented a a horrendous, expensive problem for folks that needed to drive to work. I had to park at Montgomery Mall and walk over the bridge to the work site. Also, you had to travel outside the spur for lunch, etc unless you used the cafeterias. QWL kinda bad.
Regardless, I would never want to work in Maryland again.

Paranoid post but there is probably more interesting government shit inside "the spur" than in all of Indiana.

Don't know much about it other than it's seemingly a black hole for common sense when it comes to driving. Hours of back up for absolutely no reason at all.

White people from maryland are...different. not sure what specifically it is, but its true.

Major developments in spurtown. The WMAL radio towers are being replaced with a housing development.


http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/Developer-of-WMAL-Radio-Towers-Site-Says-Traffic-Will-Remain-Within-Countys-Congestion-Standards/

WMAL Radio Towers Site Developer Says Traffic Would Not Exceed County’s Congestion Standards

A traffic study commissioned by the developer planning to build a 328-home neighborhood in Bethesda says vehicle trips generated by the project wouldn’t exceed the county’s traffic congestion standards for nearby intersections.

The finding, detailed in a 116-page report from traffic consultant Wells + Associates for developer Toll Brothers, was based on a projected 209 morning rush-hour vehicle trips out of and 271 afternoon rush-hour vehicle trips into the new neighborhood. Using those trip generation numbers, which are based on a county Planning Department methodology, congestion would be below the county’s thresholds for vehicle capacity at the eight intersections.

“Therefore, no off site road improvements are required,” reads the report, which was submitted to the county Planning Department as part of Toll Brothers’ preliminary plan application. Toll Brothers wants to build 170 single-family detached homes and 158 townhomes on the 75-acre site now home to four WMAL radio towers.

Developers that exceed the intersection capacity standards could be required to pay for extra lanes or other improvements to get project approval.

The size of the Toll Brothers project is rare in Bethesda, where the vast majority of land is already developed and infill development of existing structures is more common.

The site, just north of the Capital Beltway and southeast of I-270, sits in the middle of single-family neighborhoods along Greentree, Greyswood and Fernwood roads. The new neighborhood would have three access points, via two points along Greentree Road and the extension of Greyswood Road.

At a public meeting in April, Toll Brothers and representatives from Wells + Associates heard skeptical residents who said they were concerned with how much traffic the neighborhood would generate. Many were also worried the traffic would add to already congested intersections along Fernwood Road.

For many in the existing neighborhoods, the two-lane Fernwood Road, which widens to four lanes at certain points, is the main way in and out via its connection with Democracy Boulevard, a major road with six lanes that connects to I-270.

The traffic study, which wasn’t ready when Toll Brothers held the April public meeting, took into account projected additional traffic from the planned neighborhood and 11 other “pipeline” projects including expansions at NIH, Westfield Montgomery mall and Suburban Hospital.

It also included residential projects under construction, such as the 34-home Bethesda Mews project and 143-townhome Grosvenor Heights project, and mixed-use development proposals that have long been stalled in the approval process such as Rock Spring Center and Ourisman Ford.

In the study, the intersection projected to be the most congested is at Fernwood Road and Democracy Boulevard with an evening peak-hour “critical lane volume” measurement of 1,446, lower than the county’s standard of 1,550. Critical lane volume is a measure of intersection capacity.

If the proposed development is approved, Toll Brothers would be required to make a standard traffic mitigation payment to the county before the company starts construction, expected to begin in summer 2017 and continue in phases until 2022.

Prices for townhomes would start at just less than $1 million and the single-family homes would start at $1 million, project officials have said. The total amount of homes could end up at just 306 if Montgomery County purchases a five-acre portion at the southwest corner of the site.

Toll Brothers plans to hold that portion for the county for three years after the project is approved. If the county doesn’t purchase the five acres—which could be used for a park, school or other public facility—Toll Brothers would then incorporate it into the neighborhood.

At the April meeting, Toll Brothers Vice President John Harris told residents the Pennsylvania-based developer would hold another public meeting focused specifically on the traffic study. The developer’s website for the project says the project team will announce a date for the meeting “in the coming weeks.”
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Why is it that every new housing development here looks like pure fucking hell? Why do we live nuts to ass to our neighbors and why do people keep moving here? When will the sucking end?

I've had the misfortune to try and drive through the spur. It sucks balls any time of day. More development will only make it worse. Looking at the proposed development map you can see there is no capillary traffic flow through the new housing. I would spurn any employment offer there.

how am I going to listen to rush limbaugh if they tear down the wmal towers?

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> how am I going to listen to rush limbaugh if they
> tear down the wmal towers?


His show will be carried on Cox, Verizon and Xfinity as a modulated audio feed, but you will need to get an authorized decryption converter box from your cable provider. Only $9.95 per month for the new box so it is a real value.

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> I've had the misfortune to try and drive through
> the spur. It sucks balls any time of day.

Have you ever had your balls sucked? It's pretty awesome. Might want to use a different metaphor :)