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Anonymous
| The fact the Bethesda and Silver spring are about a 15 min drive but I have to go thru DC to get there by metro... that is why we need the purple line. |
Anonymous
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This entire project is a joke, Who is going to ride it? Seriously, who do youthink is on either end of it that needs to go to the other end?
Yet the state put in the gas tax to get some of the money but not enough. The East West Highway traffic is not going to come to an end once this is complete. How did the beltway traffic decrease after the ICC? Waste of money, waste of time. I also found it funny hwo Omally, propped up the Lt. Gov infront who happens to be running and nobody knows who he is. The State press release highlighted his name everytime it was mentioned. What a joke |
Anonymous
You could just get the bus... |
Anonymous
So what do you propose be done instead, or are you a fan of the "cut taxes and people will carpool if they're that mad" school? |
Anonymous
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It allows the "poors" into Bethesda.
That's the bottom line. NIMBY I hope it's a go! |
Anonymous
Who is going to ride it? Lots of people. The Purple Line will connect Bethesda, Silver Spring, Takoma Park/Langley, College Park, and New Carrollton. (Travel time between Bethesda and Silver Spring will be about eight and a half minutes.) It will connect to Metro at Bethesda (Red Line), Silver Spring (Red Line), College Park (Green Line), and New Carrollton (Orange Line). It will connect to the MARC Brunswick Line (at Silver Spring), the MARC Camden Line (at College Park), and the MARC Penn Line (at New Carrollton). It will connect to Amtrak at New Carrollton. Seriously, how could anybody think that people will not ride it? |
Anonymous
Maybe they consulted with the folks who decided to put up the million dollar bus stop. |
Anonymous
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of places you cited aren't that walkable. It doesn't do me any good to take the purple line somewhere when I'm then going to have to get on a bus to get to where I'm going. I really think most people will still opt to drive. That being said, if there is a private company that is willing to finance it, I'm all for it. |
Anonymous
In theory, people who drive to NIH and the expanded Navy Hospital will use it, since it makes commuting by rail a viable option if you live east of Bethesda. I hope ALL the people moving into the apartments at the new Chevy Chase Lake development will use it and not add to traffic. I think would use it if I needed to go to SS or TP. Bottom line, we needed something to connect the two branches of the Red Line. |
Anonymous
| The stops on the PL are more walkable than the PP seems to think - at least Bethesda, SS, Takoma Park, and College Park have a lot that can be accessed by walking or other forms of public transit once you're there. I live near the Chevy Chase Lake area (which is another whole exercise in excess, but that's another post) and we have not used daycares in Bethesda simply because the traffic in and out of downtown Bethesda at rush hour is nightmarish and unpredictable. If we could jump on a commuter rail and get there, and then get on the red line to work, it would definitely take our cars off the road - and it would also bring our $100k in accumulated daycare fees over the years back to MD vs. DC. (Obviously our kids will be out of daycare by the time the PL is built, if ever, but it's just an example.) |
Anonymous
I live in Bethesda and have no interest in going to Silver Spring or any of those other areas. All the PL will do is make it easier for undesirables to come to Bethesda. We pay a fortune in property taxes and with it should come safe streets and neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
| PG expressway to Bethesda, sounds like some excitement |
Anonymous
No you can't "just get the bus" b/c they don't run very many East-West routes. They should. Also for you asses that talk about it cutting through the country club--it wouldn't. It would become what is now the Capital Crescent Trail! Save the Trail, for God sake! |
Anonymous
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Remember when the discussion was whether to fund an "inner purple" (proposed route) or an "outer purple" (outside the beltway, an underground line)? The inner purple route won because studies showed that far more people would use it. The highest ridership will be between SS and Bethesda. 15:02, I don't think the ICC is a good comparison. The cost to run the inner purple underground was going to be too high to make it feasible. Unfortunate, since the above-ground solution will make a mess of downtown Bethesda and the bike routes.
21:32 uses the same argument that Georgetowners made to keep Metro out of Georgetown. What a mistake that was, though they didn't realize it then. |
Anonymous
Wrong, it will cut through the country club. Check out the maps, in particular the two titled Columbia Country Club: http://www.purplelinemd.com/en/maps-graphics You can even see where they have a golf cart underpass planned! |