I see some hands over here...
When Washington Dulles airport was built, the Washington Metro Airport Authority wanted to encourage its use. However, they knew that traffic being the way it was in DC, this would be hard to encourage people to use.
Therefore, they built the Dulles Toll Road, which charges tolls for those who travel local exits and creates two separate lanes each direction for people just going to the airport in back. Therein, theoretically, making it fast to get to the airport, even during rush hour.
The epilogue is that my parents lived in Reston in the late 1970's right after the toll road was built and my mother found it sometimes faster to go out to Dulles airport, turn around, and come back rather than taking other roads. They strongly discourage that now.
The growth of businesses along the DTR corridor played a role in making the local exits only toll plan feasible, since so many trips take place from suburb to suburb and from exurb to suburb.
Also, Virginia traditonally used a "pay-as-you-go" system, meaning that tolls would be collected in one area and then tolls removed as the road was paid for (example: I-95 around Richmond, where my father's company removed a section of booths in the early 90's).
NoVA commuters also have the option of the Dulles Greenway, which was supposed to be the next generation of highway construction in that the project was "privately" funded and contracted. Due to high initial tolls, results were mixed, or at least that was the case when I left Virginia 5+ years ago.
Weekday traffic is pretty much a bottleneck during rush hours, mid-day, and in-between. Weekends get crowded sometimes should an event, accident, or construction work intervene.
Blogs are all about ego, Craig. Don't feel bad. And yeah, weekday traffic in DC = hell. Though it's really not any worse than any other major city I've driven in.
I always assumed that the cherry trees were of the flowering variety, but perhaps they have some fruit.
Wait a sec... You're running this secret season... Shouldn't we all just put our money on the Wings to win it all (even though the Devils may be the best team left. 
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Are we to expect coverage of the post vicotry rioting too?
Sure, if the Devils win, I'll cover the rioting.
"1). What happens to the cherries that show up on the cherry blossoms?"
We had a cherry tree in my backyard as a child. I assume that what happened to them is the same all over- the flowers die off, the fruit remains, then falls off the tree to be trampled underfoot or eaten by squirrels and birds.
...unless you eat the fruits, which I don't recommend. They're small, and they're sour, and they've probably got bugs.
So is this technically fanfic, and if so may I mock you publicly?
Oh goodness Greg, you're right. I've become what I hate. I have to stop. Thank you for calling me out on it. That's it, the rest of the Secret NHL season is hereby cancelled, thanks to Greg's dose of reality.
It took a public mocking from Greg to stop this? How many times have I told you how scary this was?
yeah, I'm giddy with power now, and nothing good can come of that. I think the proper way to tell me to cram it would be to play out the season and also write up the press conferences.
And decide outcomes with a d10, of course.
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