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Need Advice Broadlands to Chantilly- 50 East, 7:30am-ish, how is it?

Discussion in 'Community Carpool Connection' started by redon1, Feb 23, 2011.

  1. TeamDonzi

    TeamDonzi ShowMeTheMoney!

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    When will the employers in the area wise up and let people work remotely?? I know not all jobs work that way, but certainly at least 30-40 percent could work remotely at least some of the time.

    @Redon, we moved to Broadlands as opposed to Stone Ridge for the main reason of avoiding Rt. 50! So glad we did!
     
  2. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    Yesterday, I left the office at 5:30PM. Took Westfields to Willard to Stonecroft to Route 50. From there I went down and took Loudoun County Parkway, to Evergreen Mills, to Belmont Ridge, Truro Parish, Claiborne, Vestals Gap and to my home.

    From the time I got in the car in the parking lot at the office to getting out of the car in my driveway, total trip time was 25 minutes! I was home at 5:55PM.

    If this is 'consistent', I think I've found a new way home! It was an easy drive, with very little traffic and frustration.
     
  3. msflynn

    msflynn New Member

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    That is fairly consistent - every now and then it takes 35 for me at that time of day from Sully field but 20 -25 is my average

    Staci
     
  4. redon1

    redon1 aka Aphioni

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    driving home via 28 hasn't been bad, even getting IN to work lately (knowck wood) has been fairly painless!
     
  5. volvo_nut

    volvo_nut New Member

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    Our corporate offices moved from Merrifield to Fair Oaks, so I am now dealing with learning new traffic patterns after 8yrs. I am done with the $4000/yr using the greenway & toll road. So this leaves me with the 20-30mins to get to 28 - Waxpool has been a parking lot the past two weeks I have used it. One day, between 8:30-9:00 it was smooth sailing. This morning 7:30-8:00 it was 25mins to get to 28. Another day I waited until 9:30 and Waxpool was still backed up to the iHop shopping center - seriously?!

    It would appear that leaving before 7am or after 10am is about the only consistent window to offer the best chance for a sub 45min, 17 mile commute.

    Can the Public Works folks time the lights better to keep traffic flowing across Waxpool?

    Are there plans for more roads out of Ashburn/Broadlands to 28?
     
  6. TeamDonzi

    TeamDonzi ShowMeTheMoney!

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    2 cents!!If I were King of the World, I would allow anyone that could to work remotely. All you business owners out there please consider this ;) This would take a good portion of the gov't workers off the roads!
     
  7. flynnibus

    flynnibus Well-Known Member Forum Staff

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    Monday morning was an anomology due to the school holiday. virtually no traffic.

    Pretty much the waxpool rush lasts well after 9am. If you get to waxpool before 7:30 it's not bad. Before 7am is significantly better. Anything past 7:30 and you're into the masses.. 8:30 or so seems to be the worst of it.

    It's pretty consistent honestly. Get to LCP/Waxpool - wait 2-3 light cycles.. and get to Rt28. Getting to waxpool/rt28 takes 10+min anyways even without rush hour.. so it taking another 5-15mins is not that abnormal.

    I try to get there around 7:30 and you normally get to be in the second cycle or so. Just let the right two lanes move right as the turn lane comes up and all is good. Just don't be one of the asses who tries to cut the line.
     
  8. Capricorn1964

    Capricorn1964 Well-Known Member

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    Takes me about 15 mins to get to work from Broadlands to Chantilly via Evergreen Mill road to Route 50. Not too shabby.

    However, I'd love to work from home but my firm forbids it because they feel that too many people would "abuse" it and productivity would suffer as a result of it. I disagree with them because I get more done from home...Many employers don't "trust" the worker bees! Two of my previous employers allowed people to work from home..Saved $$$ on the gas! Feds ought to make it mandatory for employers to allow it.
     
  9. KTdid

    KTdid Well-Known Member

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    Most employers do not understand how to measure the productivity of employees working remotely.
     
  10. redon1

    redon1 aka Aphioni

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    ...and everyone isn't cut out to work from home. some people NEED a structured, office environment to be productive, and are too distracted by the household environment to be effective, or simply enjoy and process the good energy from the work going on around them. others, like myself (HINT HINT IF MY BOSS IS LURKING!) perform much better without the distractions of co-worker chit chat, can focus well in a home office, and have a work ethic that makes them determined to OVER perform so there's no question of their ability to t-commute.
     
  11. twohokies

    twohokies New Member

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    I spent the day working from home today and got SO MUCH done. I used to telecommute the same 2 days/week with my former employer now it's only 2 days/month. I end up with too many distractions, chatty co-workers and meetings where I can't mult-task when I'm in the office, nothing gets done.

    I will add that Waxpool and 28 for that matter are clear on Friday mornings :).
     
  12. razng2grtboys

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    I'm in the exact same boat as you ;-) New office in Fair Oaks. I have been taking the parking lot lanes to 28 to 50 to West Ox also. I don't see any way to avoid Waxpool right now and 28 is also a mess until you get past the airport. Rt 50 is not too bad but wouldn't mind avoiding that as well. Let me know when you find something.
     
  13. ColesMug

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    If you have a little flexibility in the time you go in I would definitely recommend Belmont Ridge to Evergreen to LCP to 50. 50 can get bad, but as long as you are on it by 7:15-7:20 traffic isn't that backed up. I live in Brambleton so am a little closer than you, but usually make it to Waples Mill which is a little past Fair Oaks in 30 minutes.
     
  14. Bear

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    Traffic was terrible on 50 eastbound this morning from a little west of the Sheetz to Stonecroft Blvd. Probably would have taken at least 20 minutes to d that 2 mile stretch. I have a super secret way that got me past that in only 8 minutes. It's far secreter than the way I mentioned in this thread previously. I could tell you but it'd cost you.

    Bear
     
  15. wahoogeek

    wahoogeek New Member

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    maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't Waxpool/28 not that bad until about 1-2 months ago? Did something change that caused 28 to stop flowing in the morning?
     
  16. flynnibus

    flynnibus Well-Known Member Forum Staff

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    today all the morons were out... even at 9:30.. I got cut off 5 times in my short commute.

    Even at 9:30, the waxpool/lcp light was massive, and 28 was a slow crawl all the way down.
     
  17. luftinarr

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    Wahoogeek, I was thinking the same thing. Something's changed to cause the parking lot effect of 28/Waxpool very recently, but I have no idea.
     
  18. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    I think it could be the lights. This morning I noticed that when I was stopped at a red light and it turned green, the next light soon turned yellow and red, causing a lot of stop, go, stop, go type behavior all the way down. There was never any real 'flow' (if you can call it that) of traffic like there normally was over the last couple months.

    Maybe the lights got out of sync or something?
     
  19. luftinarr

    luftinarr Member

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    There seems to be a lot more traffic getting onto 28 from Waxpool now that causes the backup. Normally there's a slowdown where the Greedway merges which causes the right lane to back up on 28. After the airport it clears up, but from Greedway merge all the way back to LCP and further it's all one big cluster. Agonizing to say the least.
     
  20. wahoogeek

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    Whatever "it" is, it's on 28. The two lanes that exit onto 28 now seem to be just stopped up. This in turn backs up Waxpool.
     

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