Bad people? What kind of bad people? |
The Bethesda stops for each are connected, they're so close. You can transfer between them withut having to leave the station. |
Was just about to post the same thing! |
It would be fine if we had enough cops, but we don't. They drive out of their police station on St Elmo and speed down Old Georgetown Road to patrol wherever. Very few walking around. Try calling with any issue other than major crimes--you are ignored. |
Retail goes in cycles. White Flint Mall, Pentagon City Mall, Friendship Heights - all these and more were fun and hot and busy and great at some point. The nature of retail is that, like me, it gets old, run down and replaced by the next hot thing.
I'll call it now - Bethesda Row will be noticeably worse in five or ten years - guaranteed. Nothing to do with the Purple Line but it will still get blamed on "those people." |
I wonder who it was who kept screaming “Defund the police!!” (hint: you probably still have their stupid sign on your lawn). |
It actually happens in D.C. not infrequently, especially after the D.C. Council sent the message that fare gate jumpers were not to be detained by police. Criminals have been observed taking a shopping cart of looted merchandise from Target down in the Metro station elevator! |
Also, criminals have been observed stealing cars! |
Wait, I thought Old Georgetown Road was filled with cars day and night because of the bike lanes? So you are telling me that is a lie too? |
I guess you haven't seen the new faregates then. |
Op should just say they’re racist instead of all this fake concern. There’s nothing stopping the “wrong people” from taking the red line up to Bethesda Row already.
The purple line will let people go from Bethesda to silver spring very quickly and painlessly. Id love to go meet my friends at Denizens and not have to drive back |
DP. Unfortunately there are no bike lanes on Old Georgetown Road in downtown Bethesda. I wish the bike lanes did go all the way to downtown Bethesda, so I wouldn't have to ride on the sidewalk between downtown Bethesda and Cedar Lane. Or in the road, but I only do that when I happen to be going somewhere with other people on bikes, and that inconveniences drivers even more. |
I'd love to go to UMD on the Purple Line instead of driving on the Beltway. |
There’s only one way to test this hypothesis. Wait until the Purple Line opens and then see if crime has increased or decreased the following years. Would the virtue signaling PPs who are so adamant about it not contributing to crime be willing to put money on it if this was IRL? I doubt it. Let’s revisit this thread in 2027. |
I am the first to say that "correlation does not equal causality" is overused, but it definitely applies here. Also, what are you going to do? Call for the state to shut down the Purple Line? |