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Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: Cukaboro Steve ()
Date: February 21, 2018 09:23AM

What was the point

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: historical ()
Date: February 21, 2018 09:31AM

That road was originally supposed to be called “the I-270 Spur” but then it dawned on them that people might confuse it with the one over in Maryland.

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: Your Friends at Transurban ()
Date: February 21, 2018 09:33AM

It's all about the money

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: Road Scholar ()
Date: February 21, 2018 05:56PM

VA 267, at least the Greenway portion, was constructed as a way to alleviate traffic on Route 7 from the suburbs of DC to Leesburg.

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: VDOT... ()
Date: February 22, 2018 06:31AM

More to give increasing numbers of residents in the boondocks a quicker way to get back to civilization.

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: XYDDC ()
Date: February 22, 2018 07:08AM

So people that owned cheap farmland could become like .com millionaires overnight!

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: Xrrsx ()
Date: February 24, 2018 12:57PM

For no reason. They didn't have a reason. They just built it.

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Re: Why was the Dulles Greenway built???
Posted by: SRRes ()
Date: February 24, 2018 02:01PM

It was built by a tire and gas pump trust fund heiress affiliated with the Carlyle Group in order to focus inevitable development in Ashburn, away from Route 50, the transcontinental truck route portion of the US Highway system that also serves as main street for the horsey foxhunting estate towns of the globally generationally wealthy.
The original components of its financing have never been disclosed, and so far they've sold it to themselves more than once in order to keep claiming it hasn't paid for itself yet.

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