Amid the crickets chirping, the children playing, and the Porsches humming, the residents of a tony stretch in McLean would like to ban one thing: big, noisy trucks. The McLean Citizens Association recently took its gripe to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, asking in the name of safety and sound pollution for an end to truck traffic on the stretches of Georgetown Pike and Balls Hill Road that form a triangle with Dolley Madison Boulevard.

Along the two-lane, winding thoroughfares lie seven schools, six churches, two parks, four crosswalks, one playground, and more than your average neighborhood’s share of multimillion-dollar mansions.