It's a job that pays a lot more than $7.25 an hour. |
The parking lot at silver spring metro would like a word. And so would Hogan’s 495 expansion 😒 |
The parking lot at the Silver Spring metro station cost $11 billion? I also don’t think that you realized that Virginia is extending the HOT lanes to the American Legion Bridge. If Maryland does not do something, traffic will be backed up on 495 for miles and miles and miles all of the time, every single day. You anti-highway folks are such NIMBYs that you have no clue about the negative consequences and related economic effects. You probably have some idiotic rationale for why stifling congestion is actually good. |
The funny thing about left YIMBYs is that they only want housing growth, they only want it on the most expensive land, and they only want the most expensive types of construction. No one has done more damage to this county’s economy than the left YIMBY/Smart Growth movement and they’ve left a terrible budget mess that continues to get worse. |
I actually think most people supported the 495 widening in Maryland to match Virginia’s project to ease traffic. And when the bridge is rebuilt, in addition to the road widening, space should be left over for some future high capacity rapid transit. That’s how the Wilson Bridge was rebuilt. Only a very small minority of disgruntled people were truly against the beltway widening; many of these fights are to score political points. |
Most people, by now, know that highway widening "to ease traffic" has never, ever, ever, not once, actually eased traffic. |
Ha ha - obviously you've never been to Rockville, where the Red Line delivers "crime and bad people" to inflict their problems on neighborhoods. We also have all of the subsidized housing that does the same. I think it would be better to maybe try to solve that problem, rather than building "enclaves" where rich people can hide and everyone else suffers. |
That's funny because every time I drive to Virginia, I get on a toll lane and suddenly can actually drive. The hold-ups in VA now are from construction and back-ups as people enter Maryland. |
Even the law of induced demand has its limitations. The Beltway is the one of the exceptions where traffic has actually lessened substantially on the Va side. Fewer people are driving on that road post widening. |
Induced demand is not relevant with congestion pricing. It’s why the anticar activists have switched up messaging by calling HOT lanes “Lexus lanes” and saying they are inequitable. In other contexts however they are all about increasing usage fees and costs for driving. |
Imagine that. Putting housing where there is a lot of demand for it. |
But it has made more sites viable for housing construction, and we need more housing. If we hadn’t developed the 270 corridor then housing would be even more expensive. |
There’s a lot of demand for housing in a lot of places, not only the places you approve of it. We underperform on housing production because developers view MoCo as higher risk and prefer to build in places with job growth. Your approach to growth has created a hot mess and a housing crisis. That’s great for big corporate landlords because they’ve secured enough market power to fix prices but it’s terrible for everyone else. |
Nonsense. It's not car-dependent sprawl vs. nothing, it's car-dependent sprawl vs walkable/transitable compact development. Unless you're saying that highways encourage sprawl? Because yes, that's true, highways encourage car-dependent sprawl. |
Widening highways to reduce the number of people driving is even more bonkers than widening highways to "ease traffic". |