New Potomac River Bridge

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

Exactly. Invest in jobs so Marylanders don’t have to make the commute.

If you invest in infrastructure it will convince businesses to locate in MD and create jobs. What business in their right mind would locate somewhere that would be difficult for their clients and employees to access?

I am all in favor of the state investing in infrastructure. But not more highways. That only benefits the highway construction industry.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

This is so stupid that it barely warrants a response. I take it that you’ve never travelled outside of the US, but maybe that’s not so important. Just look up US income inequality and then compare it to those of others countries in Western Europe etc. that, through various measures, have managed to limit rampant suburbanization and encourage transit use over driving. There is no evidence whatsoever that building more highways reduces income inequality. In fact, the evidence is exactly the opposite. Moreover, promoting automobile use and the associated generation of carbon emissions only hurts those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which by and large are the poorest people in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

This is so stupid that it barely warrants a response. I take it that you’ve never travelled outside of the US, but maybe that’s not so important. Just look up US income inequality and then compare it to those of others countries in Western Europe etc. that, through various measures, have managed to limit rampant suburbanization and encourage transit use over driving. There is no evidence whatsoever that building more highways reduces income inequality. In fact, the evidence is exactly the opposite. Moreover, promoting automobile use and the associated generation of carbon emissions only hurts those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which by and large are the poorest people in the world.

What does income inequality have to do with anything? You are absolutely confused. On all relevant economic and development indicators the US out performs Europe. You’ve apparently studied at the University of Memes at Twitter which unfortunately means that you’re dumb as rocks.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

Why have any bridges? Why have any roads? Why have any seaports? Why have any airports?

Why don’t we just dig it all up and this sit and our homes and wait to die of poverty and starvation?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

Why have any bridges? Why have any roads? Why have any seaports? Why have any airports?

Why don’t we just dig it all up and this sit and our homes and wait to die of poverty and starvation?

Be careful you don't slide too fast down that slippery slope and hurt yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

This is so stupid that it barely warrants a response. I take it that you’ve never travelled outside of the US, but maybe that’s not so important. Just look up US income inequality and then compare it to those of others countries in Western Europe etc. that, through various measures, have managed to limit rampant suburbanization and encourage transit use over driving. There is no evidence whatsoever that building more highways reduces income inequality. In fact, the evidence is exactly the opposite. Moreover, promoting automobile use and the associated generation of carbon emissions only hurts those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which by and large are the poorest people in the world.

What does income inequality have to do with anything? You are absolutely confused. On all relevant economic and development indicators the US out performs Europe. You’ve apparently studied at the University of Memes at Twitter which unfortunately means that you’re dumb as rocks.

Sorry that I mistook you for someone who could string a couple of logical thoughts together. But I guess if you can’t figure out the implications of the argument that you were making for income inequality, I gave you too much credit. Not surprising therefore that you don’t consider the median wage to be a “relevant economic and development indicator”. The majority of the labor force may disagree with you on that one.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

Ha ha. I guess that hit a little too close to home.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

That's kind of an argument for toll roads. Make them free for people who carpool or delivery trucks, and paid for single-occupant vehicles.

We're half-way there. The HOT (express) lanes on the VA side of the bridge are free for those with at least 3 in the car. The MD side will be similar as I understand it.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

That's kind of an argument for toll roads. Make them free for people who carpool or delivery trucks, and paid for single-occupant vehicles.

We're half-way there. The HOT (express) lanes on the VA side of the bridge are free for those with at least 3 in the car. The MD side will be similar as I understand it.

Good idea. Let's put tolls on all the roads. All of them. Wait, what?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.

To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"

That's kind of an argument for toll roads. Make them free for people who carpool or delivery trucks, and paid for single-occupant vehicles.

We're half-way there. The HOT (express) lanes on the VA side of the bridge are free for those with at least 3 in the car. The MD side will be similar as I understand it.

Good idea. Let's put tolls on all the roads. All of them. Wait, what?

We do, in the form of a tax on gasoline. But it hasn't been raised to keep up with the times.

Toll roads on specific roads where we want to control congestion on encourage certain behaviors can work. That's what Japan does for example.

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Md owns the entire Potomac River and doesn’t like development

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County. Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.

Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts.

This is so stupid that it barely warrants a response. I take it that you’ve never travelled outside of the US, but maybe that’s not so important. Just look up US income inequality and then compare it to those of others countries in Western Europe etc. that, through various measures, have managed to limit rampant suburbanization and encourage transit use over driving. There is no evidence whatsoever that building more highways reduces income inequality. In fact, the evidence is exactly the opposite. Moreover, promoting automobile use and the associated generation of carbon emissions only hurts those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which by and large are the poorest people in the world.

What does income inequality have to do with anything? You are absolutely confused. On all relevant economic and development indicators the US out performs Europe. You’ve apparently studied at the University of Memes at Twitter which unfortunately means that you’re dumb as rocks.

Sorry that I mistook you for someone who could string a couple of logical thoughts together. But I guess if you can’t figure out the implications of the argument that you were making for income inequality, I gave you too much credit. Not surprising therefore that you don’t consider the median wage to be a “relevant economic and development indicator”. The majority of the labor force may disagree with you on that one.

What does any of that have to do with a bridge?