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A New Beginning for Old Problems
One person had experienced a much smaller but perhaps no less significant improvement in commuting: "Coffee." Several cited interchange improvements on routes in Virginia and Maryland or the completion of Metro's Green Line. For another, the biggest travel improvement came at no public price: "learning more about the roads in and around the city."
As we develop the new "Dr. Gridlock" in the newspaper and online, we'll target problems of regional significance and neighborhood consequence. And I'll cling to the advice I got in an e-mail from Andy Moursund of Kensington: "The whole point of a Dr. Gridlock column should be to get local officials off their butts to do something about the causes of specific, chronic logjams throughout the area."
  Bob Thomson, a newsman for 30 years, is the new Dr. Gridlock. Save & Share |
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Transportation researcher Diane Mattingly contributed to this column.
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