Originally Posted by
island_airphoto
Given the nature of IAD/DCA area traffic, I am amazed that anyone made room for them, I would expect a middle finger and "get your plane out of my way"!
It was a DC snow day; i.e., schools closed and liberal work absence, so traffic on area roads was light. Additionally, that stretch of road has a couple of traffic signals upstream of the landing zone so the timing may have just worked out right.