Purple line

[Anonymous]

Purple Line is a net environmental gain for the region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Purple Line is a net environmental gain for the region.

Keep on drinking the Kool Aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give it a rest folks, the war is over. Go back to your trenches and find something else to complain about.

Anyone who lives or works around Bethesda and Silver Spring supports the PL, with the understandable exception of those whose property is right on the route.

Fwiw few if any infrastructure projects ever really take traffic off the road, simply because additional lanes or new roads simply change traffic patterns. And because they are typically undertaken in areas that are growing and projected to continue growing -- so traffic by definition was on the rise with or without the project.

The Big Dig in Boston, which was at the time the most expensive project of its kind and took years as well as billions in federal money, was projected to reduce traffic minimally. But anyone who lived or travelled in Boston before and after the project would agree it's been a huge improvement in the quality of life in the city (and in my experience traffic patterns are improved.) So if what you want is fewer cars, you're using the wrong metric.

What PP said.

With demographic explosion in the area, we need more transportation options. There will be tons of people riding the Purple Line, and tons of traffic on the roads. Because we will have that many more people!

End of story, and I can't believe it took THIRTY YEARS!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am cautiously optimistic about this since I have a home that is fairly close to a purple line. When it's finally done we will be able to ride it to Downtown Silver Spring

Downside is that there is likely going to be construction in my neck of the woods for the forseeable future. My husband and I are taking informal that's about when this is actually be up and running probably 6 or 7 years?

You will make $$$$$ when you sell!

I too am near enough to walk to a station but far enough away to not be on top of it for noise, traffic problems. I think it will have a very nice impact on my property value.

So are my friends, and yet they fought this tooth and nail and whined for years. Massive eye-roll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Purple Line is a net environmental gain for the region.

Keep on drinking the Kool Aid

Rather than fall back on a cliche please explain why adding public transit is not a net environmental gain for the region?

[Anonymous]

“Hogan is an autocrat and anti-environmental governor.”

In all other scenarios, when someone approves mass transit this is normally considered to be overall a good thing for the environment. Funny how that’s different here you say...

[Anonymous]

My house is for houses up from where the purple line will run and about a block and a half over from where a station will be. Anyone have thoughts on whether we're too close to see a raise in property values? On a larger level, I'm fully supportive of the purple line, but personally, I'm wondering how it will affect my property value and I'm not sure. We're not right on top of it, but we are really close.

[Anonymous]

For should be four

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Hogan is an autocrat and anti-environmental governor.”

In all other scenarios, when someone approves mass transit this is normally considered to be overall a good thing for the environment. Funny how that’s different here you say...

These people are from MoCo. It would be a good thing and the governor would be lauded had he been a Democrat.

It's a bad thing and the governor is criticized since he is a Republican. How can you not figure that out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason I'm opposed to the Purple Line is because it's being implemented by a rethuglican governor. If a Dem were doing it, I'd be all for it.

Yes, I know that is trivial. So politics is trivial, tell me something I don't know.

But I'm pissed that hogan is going to take credit for it.

We held off casinos back when erlich wanted them, just to F him, and we did. Then s soon as he was gone, BOOM, casinos.

That's how it should've been with the purple line. Dumbass people in this state have forgotten how to play politics. It's a contact sport.

Quoted for sheer awesomeness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Hogan is an autocrat and anti-environmental governor.”

In all other scenarios, when someone approves mass transit this is normally considered to be overall a good thing for the environment. Funny how that’s different here you say...

I work in that field, ridership is down across the nation, not just here because the issues metro is having but for the past 4 years it has been a steady decline in ridership.

If you are given the chance to work remotely would you? That is what is happening. People are not going to give up that perk and then get on a crowded bus or train that is dirty and not reliable. Ridership is 1/3 of what it used to be on Mondays and Fridays, Wednesdays are down 20% while Tuesday and Thursday are down 15%

Metro took a year to do their surge to decrease the number of arching insulators, they have increased.

Most transit is funded by the government through grants so understand that those in the positions to create transit, will do so for job security.

Sure people will be excited and wowed by the first few months of service but then like most transit projects they decline in ridership, condition etc etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Hogan is an autocrat and anti-environmental governor.”

In all other scenarios, when someone approves mass transit this is normally considered to be overall a good thing for the environment. Funny how that’s different here you say...

I work in that field, ridership is down across the nation, not just here because the issues metro is having but for the past 4 years it has been a steady decline in ridership.

If you are given the chance to work remotely would you? That is what is happening. People are not going to give up that perk and then get on a crowded bus or train that is dirty and not reliable. Ridership is 1/3 of what it used to be on Mondays and Fridays, Wednesdays are down 20% while Tuesday and Thursday are down 15%

Metro took a year to do their surge to decrease the number of arching insulators, they have increased.

Most transit is funded by the government through grants so understand that those in the positions to create transit, will do so for job security.

Sure people will be excited and wowed by the first few months of service but then like most transit projects they decline in ridership, condition etc etc

Your post is utter non-sense and if you work for WMATA we have another data point for why the agency is failing but I suspect you are a cranky Chevy Chase retiree who knows little about how the world works these days.

Some metro areas have seen slight drops in transit ridership the last 2-3 years but overall transit usage has been trending steadily upwards for the last 20 years:

https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd

Even WMATA's ridership is down nowhere close to as much as you allege - it is actually down about 10% from its peak on weekdays and still carries between 650,000-700,000 riders per day which makes it the third most used transit rail system in North America.

Do you know anything about how transit (and other transportation infrastructure for that matter) is funded in the US and the difference between capital budgets and operating budgets?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason I'm opposed to the Purple Line is because it's being implemented by a rethuglican governor. If a Dem were doing it, I'd be all for it.

Yes, I know that is trivial. So politics is trivial, tell me something I don't know.

But I'm pissed that hogan is going to take credit for it.

We held off casinos back when erlich wanted them, just to F him, and we did. Then s soon as he was gone, BOOM, casinos.

That's how it should've been with the purple line. Dumbass people in this state have forgotten how to play politics. It's a contact sport.

Quoted for sheer awesomeness

Quoting this for sheer stupidity. Even Terry McCauliffe said we need to knockmof the insane rhetoric to save metro. This is not a joke.

[Anonymous]

PP here, I read the information above in 10/26 WaPo Metro section.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Hogan is an autocrat and anti-environmental governor.”

In all other scenarios, when someone approves mass transit this is normally considered to be overall a good thing for the environment. Funny how that’s different here you say...

I work in that field, ridership is down across the nation, not just here because the issues metro is having but for the past 4 years it has been a steady decline in ridership.

If you are given the chance to work remotely would you? That is what is happening. People are not going to give up that perk and then get on a crowded bus or train that is dirty and not reliable. Ridership is 1/3 of what it used to be on Mondays and Fridays, Wednesdays are down 20% while Tuesday and Thursday are down 15%

Metro took a year to do their surge to decrease the number of arching insulators, they have increased.

Most transit is funded by the government through grants so understand that those in the positions to create transit, will do so for job security.

Sure people will be excited and wowed by the first few months of service but then like most transit projects they decline in ridership, condition etc etc

So you're opposed to the governor's ideas about widening the Beltway and I-270, right? What with people increasingly teleworking instead of commuting during regular commuting hours.