I'm planning on buying a townhouse in burke. location is right by coffer woods and burke center prky.

I was wondering for you NOVA guys, how long is the mornign commute from that area to mclean 495 and tysons.

work is at 9am. I'm thinking about 40 min? longer? what do you guys think?

 

9am is rush hour time, so traffic will be pretty bad, on normal timing its probably around 30-40min

 

^WTF? Takes 10-15 Minutes from WW Bridge to Tysons 1

 

yea prob this amount. I go to tysons area, it takes me about 5-10 minutes to get off the gallows exit and from there it takes me around 15 minutes to get to mclean. So since ur in burke and getting off the braddock exit, prob around 40 minutes.

Of course if there's no traffic it'd take around 15-20 minutes but this is rush hour traffic moriar

 

40 mins to Tysons during the morning rush from Burke?? You gotta know backroads to do that. FFX County Parkway backs up heading north in the morning to 66 because of the Fair Lakes traffic lights. 123 backs up in the morning if you are thinking of cutting thru Fairfax. Unless you are doing HOV, it can take an hour to get from FFX County Parkway to 495 on I-66. Then there is the backup from 495 to get onto Route 7 into Tysons Corner.

 

thanks for the replies! anyone else?

 

i also figure between 40-60 min. depending on traffic that day. but all bets are off on those times if there is an accident somewhere along that route.

 

usually though after 66, traffic is cleared on 495 and you can go as fast as you want. it's right before 66 till around braddock where there's stop and go traffic.

 

I'd be going from braddock to tysons. still the same?

 

LOL, what time of day r u doing this? and how fast r u going? he's also talkin about comin from braddock, so he also has to take braddock rd, which takes time with traffic lights probly to get to 495. Not to mention everyone in NoVa knows how bad rush hour traffic is goin east/north in the morning, on braddock, rt 50, 29, 66, and 495, and gallows and rt7 are also pretty bad at those times....
...also, think about how many fuckin accidents there r in the morning, almost everyday there are lanes blocked off on 1 or 2 major roads, from accidents and random roadwork/construction zones