Why no MARC or Metro service in Annapolis

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Can't they run a metro line in the median of us 50 from 95 to Annapolis

Sure. Kind of like the Silver Line in Virginia, which took 18 years, to build, cost billions, and ran over budget and late?

So it's actually kind of interesting, how come it costs so much more to build transit projects, and takes so much longer, in the US than anywhere else in the world.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/k7b5mn/a-dollar100-billion-lesson-in-why-building-public-transportation-is-so-expensive-in-the-us

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Can't they run a metro line in the median of us 50 from 95 to Annapolis

Sure. Kind of like the Silver Line in Virginia, which took 18 years, to build, cost billions, and ran over budget and late?

So it's actually kind of interesting, how come it costs so much more to build transit projects, and takes so much longer, in the US than anywhere else in the world.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/k7b5mn/a-dollar100-billion-lesson-in-why-building-public-transportation-is-so-expensive-in-the-us

Also: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Can't they run a metro line in the median of us 50 from 95 to Annapolis

Lol not enough density to pay for the system. End of story.

So build the rail line, and density will follow it. Duh.
Have you seen Davidsonville? That whole empty stretch of nothingness in between Bowie and Annapolis? Miles and miles of nothing but farmland doing nothing, and endless patches of trees and woods. Put in a rail line and high density, efficient multi unit housing located around the stations will naturally follow. Set aside a large percentage of it as designated affordable housing as well.

This stuff isn’t hard. The only people who’d be opposed to it are sh!tkicker farmers and rural trumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Can't they run a metro line in the median of us 50 from 95 to Annapolis

Lol not enough density to pay for the system. End of story.

So build the rail line, and density will follow it. Duh.
Have you seen Davidsonville? That whole empty stretch of nothingness in between Bowie and Annapolis? Miles and miles of nothing but farmland doing nothing, and endless patches of trees and woods. Put in a rail line and high density, efficient multi unit housing located around the stations will naturally follow. Set aside a large percentage of it as designated affordable housing as well.

This stuff isn’t hard. The only people who’d be opposed to it are sh!tkicker farmers and rural trumpers.

If it's farmland, is it doing nothing?

[Anonymous]

They need to run the Metro in the US 50 right of way all the way to Bowie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They need to run the Metro in the US 50 right of way all the way to Bowie

They don’t need to do anything. Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Can't they run a metro line in the median of us 50 from 95 to Annapolis

Lol not enough density to pay for the system. End of story.

So build the rail line, and density will follow it. Duh.
Have you seen Davidsonville? That whole empty stretch of nothingness in between Bowie and Annapolis? Miles and miles of nothing but farmland doing nothing, and endless patches of trees and woods. Put in a rail line and high density, efficient multi unit housing located around the stations will naturally follow. Set aside a large percentage of it as designated affordable housing as well.

This stuff isn’t hard. The only people who’d be opposed to it are sh!tkicker farmers and rural trumpers.

That sounds …. awful. Isn’t that just creating more sprawl?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That sounds …. awful. Isn’t that just creating more sprawl?

Probably. At least it would be centered around transit instead of personal car ownership.

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Anonymous wrote:Because there aren’t railroad tracks or a railroad right of way within 10 miles of Annapolis would be the obvious guess.

You’re limiting the situation to the obvious and real and not the imaginary.

In the imaginary world, the reason there isn’t a train station or RR right of way to Annapolis (one of the oldest cities in America), is because the US has been subsidizing cars since the 1700s. You’re not dreaming big enough either. You should be dreaming for a steam punk future of 19th century technology to solve 21st century transportation needs.

https://www.annapolisrailroadhistory.com/baltimore-annapolis-railroad-overview

And where is that all important right of way from DC to Annapolis that OP claims car dependency took from us?

https://www.aacounty.org/departments/recreation-parks/parks/trails/wb-a-trail/

you seem to have a lack of understanding about geography.

There was once a branch of the WB&A that connected to the main interurban line from Washington to Baltimore at Odenton. You had to transfer there, but it was a semi-direct route to Washington. You can see the right of way parallel to West St. downtown.

[Anonymous]

Check out this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Hour-Chronicle-Washington-Association/dp/0960093834

The service was fast and convenient. Some of the R0W is a rail trail. BWI put a runway over the part near Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

It seems to me that there are somehow just a lot of train nerds out there. Perhaps a better use of your time is to go and watch The Station Agent with your friends instead of devising cockamamie train schemes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That sounds …. awful. Isn’t that just creating more sprawl?

Probably. At least it would be centered around transit instead of personal car ownership.

Does that really matter? Does it make a difference to the farms or woodlands that will be paved over? I would argue it doesn’t.