The Purple Line builders want out

[Anonymous]

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I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Bethesda has relatively few low income units.

Leaving that aside it is unusual for someone in low income housing to be opposed to public transit since people living in low income housing have significantly lower car ownership rates and depend on public transit more and also lose disproportionate shares of their time using public transit.

So if you care about low income people you should be a supporter of improved public transportation.

Just like the faux environmentalists of Chevy Chase should support the Purple Line if they actually cared about the environment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Bethesda has relatively few low income units.

Leaving that aside it is unusual for someone in low income housing to be opposed to public transit since people living in low income housing have significantly lower car ownership rates and depend on public transit more and also lose disproportionate shares of their time using public transit.

So if you care about low income people you should be a supporter of improved public transportation.

Just like the faux environmentalists of Chevy Chase should support the Purple Line if they actually cared about the environment.

You don't get to tell me what I should be thinking and feeling. I don't care if Bethesda has relatively few low income units. What does that have to do with anything? I live in one. I have a right to my opinions, just like you do. I hate the Purple Line.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Bethesda has relatively few low income units.

Leaving that aside it is unusual for someone in low income housing to be opposed to public transit since people living in low income housing have significantly lower car ownership rates and depend on public transit more and also lose disproportionate shares of their time using public transit.

So if you care about low income people you should be a supporter of improved public transportation.

Just like the faux environmentalists of Chevy Chase should support the Purple Line if they actually cared about the environment.

You don't get to tell me what I should be thinking and feeling. I don't care if Bethesda has relatively few low income units. What does that have to do with anything? I live in one. I have a right to my opinions, just like you do. I hate the Purple Line.

PP again. Also, everyone in our low-income development has a car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

There is some serious cognitive dissonance in your posts and you certainly don't know what you are talking about and potentially are at worst lying and at best just making things up.

As pointed out by the other PP you've been responding to the Purple Line won't impact your ability to bike to the Bethesda Pool which makes me think your version of low income housing is really a 2 million dollar home in Chevy Chase from which it would be possible to actually bike to the pool.

In any case the Purple Line is essentially underground when it comes through Bethesda so won't be "cutting through" your community (assuming that is even true) in any practical way.

But politically this is a settled issue - the Purple Line is overwhelmingly supported by people in Montgomery County and Bethesda and that is reflected in the political support for it at both the county and state level.

It doesn't matter that some clueless elites in Chevy Chase disagree with the political consensus on this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You got a say, this was decided by the political representatives elected by the community. You don't want a say, you want a veto.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You got a say, this was decided by the political representatives elected by the community. You don't want a say, you want a veto.

Yes, and it looks like we're getting one. Seems like the Purple Line will be a casualty of the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

There is some serious cognitive dissonance in your posts and you certainly don't know what you are talking about and potentially are at worst lying and at best just making things up.

As pointed out by the other PP you've been responding to the Purple Line won't impact your ability to bike to the Bethesda Pool which makes me think your version of low income housing is really a 2 million dollar home in Chevy Chase from which it would be possible to actually bike to the pool.

In any case the Purple Line is essentially underground when it comes through Bethesda so won't be "cutting through" your community (assuming that is even true) in any practical way.

But politically this is a settled issue - the Purple Line is overwhelmingly supported by people in Montgomery County and Bethesda and that is reflected in the political support for it at both the county and state level.

It doesn't matter that some clueless elites in Chevy Chase disagree with the political consensus on this issue.

I am not a clueless elite. I do not live in Chevy Chase -- I live in Bethesda, in a tax-assisted low income development. No, there is no consensus on this issue. The trail has been blocked off for over a year. It is a shambles. Trees have been yanked out. Chain link fences have been erected. What was once a beautiful, peaceful place to go simply is no longer.

I grew up in Bethesda. I've seen a lot. I wish the Purple Line and the 2 million dollar homes would all go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't live in a 2 million dollar home. I live in a low income rental apartment. We don't even have a yard. We used to use the trail every single day in good weather to go to the [PUBLIC] pool and just to get some exercise. My kids rode their bikes on it. It was always in use. It was a beautiful resource in a crowded area and now it's been ruined. How much overcrowding to you think this area can take before it becomes a crap place -- for everyone -- to live?

It will continue to always be in use, when the Purple Line is built.

Now I am wondering, though, which neighborhood includes "low income rental apartments" in biking distance of a public pool and has the money to pay environmental consultants to look for amphipods. Not to mention lawyers to file lawsuits. There's the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's unaffected by Purple Line construction. You certainly could bike from, say, Lyttonsville to the Bethesda outdoor pool, but it's a longer bike trip for kids than people in this area would typically undertake.

Downtown Bethesda has many low income rental properties and MPDUs. Surely you must know that. I'm not the poster who paid environmental consultants or lawyers -- obviously. I think it's pretty weak of you to imagine there is only one person opposed to your arguments.

Downtown Bethesda does NOT have many "low income rental apartments", though it does have a lot of MPDUs, and you wouldn't take the Purple Line part of the Georgetown Branch from downtown Bethesda to get to the Bethesda outdoor pool.

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

There is some serious cognitive dissonance in your posts and you certainly don't know what you are talking about and potentially are at worst lying and at best just making things up.

As pointed out by the other PP you've been responding to the Purple Line won't impact your ability to bike to the Bethesda Pool which makes me think your version of low income housing is really a 2 million dollar home in Chevy Chase from which it would be possible to actually bike to the pool.

In any case the Purple Line is essentially underground when it comes through Bethesda so won't be "cutting through" your community (assuming that is even true) in any practical way.

But politically this is a settled issue - the Purple Line is overwhelmingly supported by people in Montgomery County and Bethesda and that is reflected in the political support for it at both the county and state level.

It doesn't matter that some clueless elites in Chevy Chase disagree with the political consensus on this issue.

I am not a clueless elite. I do not live in Chevy Chase -- I live in Bethesda, in a tax-assisted low income development. No, there is no consensus on this issue. The trail has been blocked off for over a year. It is a shambles. Trees have been yanked out. Chain link fences have been erected. What was once a beautiful, peaceful place to go simply is no longer.

I grew up in Bethesda. I've seen a lot. I wish the Purple Line and the 2 million dollar homes would all go away.

If there was genuinely not consensus on this issue, the purple line people would have mounted a successfully electoral campaign to stop it. They didn't. They relied on lawsuits, front organizations, and high priced lobbyists, because they know the representatives elected by the people wanted it.. You disagree and you've got your reasons, but saying "there is no consensus" is quite simple wrong. We all get a say, and you lost. That's life.

[Anonymous]

I meant to say "anti-Purple Line people" obviously.

[Anonymous]

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Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You live in a low-income development in Bethesda (where everyone has a car) and your kids used to bike to a public pool on the part of the Georgetown Branch that's between Bethesda and Silver Spring

Well, I'm stumped, because I can't think of anywhere that fits all of those descriptors. Maybe someone else can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You live in a low-income development in Bethesda (where everyone has a car) and your kids used to bike to a public pool on the part of the Georgetown Branch that's between Bethesda and Silver Spring

Well, I'm stumped, because I can't think of anywhere that fits all of those descriptors. Maybe someone else can.

Well decades ago there was a pool at Chevy Chase Lake - maybe that was it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You live in a low-income development in Bethesda (where everyone has a car) and your kids used to bike to a public pool on the part of the Georgetown Branch that's between Bethesda and Silver Spring

Well, I'm stumped, because I can't think of anywhere that fits all of those descriptors. Maybe someone else can.

You're right. I was lying. You caught me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Are you serious? You are seriously trying to find some kind of flaw in my post? Stupid. If you can only imagine that people who do not agree with you must be lying, then there is no point in talking to you. Like other Purple Line supporters, you simply cannot comprehend that others who actually LIVE in the community DO NOT WANT the Purple Line and should have a say in whether it cuts through their neighborhood.

You live in a low-income development in Bethesda (where everyone has a car) and your kids used to bike to a public pool on the part of the Georgetown Branch that's between Bethesda and Silver Spring

Well, I'm stumped, because I can't think of anywhere that fits all of those descriptors. Maybe someone else can.

You're right. I was lying. You caught me.

I'm the PP you're responding to. I'm trying to catch you in a lie. I'm trying to figure out where this place is where you do all this stuff.