I don't know much about 495, but DC has plenty of traffic already, no? Will anyone even notice?
The French have done this. I think it happened in Spain too. My favorite one was in New Zealand. The Parliament passed a methane tax to be assessed to cow and sheep farts. Several ranchers showed up at Parliament with trucks full of sheep and cow shit and dumped them on the steps.
Maryland and Virginia police officials said at mid-morning that the truck protesters appeared to have broken up into smaller groups and were traveling at the same speed as the rest of traffic along the Beltway.
In Virginia, the trucks were traveling in the right lane of the Beltway earlier in the morning, keeping pace with other traffic — around 40 to 45 miles per hour, due to the wet road conditions, said Virginia State Police spokesman Corinne N. Geller.