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To: TimF who wrote (132539)	2/12/2001 4:03:15 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580442

Yes most of the traffic on the Beltway (495 is correct except part of it is called 95) is for travel from one place in the DC area to another, not people bypassing DC to go further South or North on 95, but I think traffic would be even worse on other roads if we didn't have the Beltway. Tim, Funny, how the original intent of the beltways that were built around a number of American cities has been lost. The 495 beltway was built primarily as a bypass of DC for people traveling from PA and points north to NC and pts south. Instead, it has become a major commuting thoroughfare for people traveling from one part of DC Metro to another, and has encouraged building outside the downtown area and the sprawling of the suburbs. In the process the original purpose has all but been lost. As for traffic being worse without it, I am beginning to wonder had we never built freeways would we have been a lot better off. LA kept building freeway after freeway desperately trying to avoid building mass transit [except buses]. Nonetheless, gridlock reared its ugly head, and now, LA endorses mass transit like a former sinner discovering God. I guess we will never know. ted