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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

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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.

A sales (excise) tax on gasoline is not a toll on a road. Not to mention that the gas tax has never covered the full cost of roads, and now increasingly covers even less.

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels 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?

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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

[Anonymous]

All the Va arguments about how Md are the ones who need a bridge is funny. If Maryland wanted a bridge, it would build one. It is the 81 and 66 sprawl that are looking for a better way to get to 95 North that want it. That is not a Md problem. Complete ownership of the river and no need = no 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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

Maybe you should check a map? Certainly would benefit from having higher educated people. I would encourage you to join them.

MD/VA Bridges (4):
- Point of Rocks
- American Legion
- Wilson
- Nice

DC/VA Bridges (6):
- Chain
- Key
- Roosevelt
- Memorial
- 14th St
- 395

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

Maybe you should check a map? Certainly would benefit from having higher educated people. I would encourage you to join them.

MD/VA Bridges (4):
- Point of Rocks
- American Legion
- Wilson
- Nice

DC/VA Bridges (6):
- Chain
- Key
- Roosevelt
- Memorial
- 14th St
- 395

Obviously we need more bridges between Maryland and DC!

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

Maybe you should check a map? Certainly would benefit from having higher educated people. I would encourage you to join them.

MD/VA Bridges (4):
- Point of Rocks
- American Legion
- Wilson
- Nice

DC/VA Bridges (6):
- Chain
- Key
- Roosevelt
- Memorial
- 14th St
- 395

Obviously we need more bridges between Maryland and DC!

Would that DC/MD Bridge be across Rock Creek or the Anacostia?

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

Maybe you should check a map? Certainly would benefit from having higher educated people. I would encourage you to join them.

MD/VA Bridges (4):
- Point of Rocks
- American Legion
- Wilson
- Nice

DC/VA Bridges (6):
- Chain
- Key
- Roosevelt
- Memorial
- 14th St
- 395

So Mr Va education, do you just don't know about the others and or simply not possess the ability to read a map? I'll even spot you and not count little ones like Dunns Swamp Rd (Va 707) that crosses the super famous Pocomoke River. Other than that, I can only assume it is the simple blind confidence that stupid people (Virginians) possess when they are positive they are right even though they know very little on the subject that led to your omissions of Brunswick and Harper's Bridge.

BTW I do live in the better educated state

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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.

This is like saying housing construction only benefits developers. Grow up.

OK, sorry, yes, more highways also benefits the auto industry and the fossil fuels industry.

Infrastructure benefits commerce which is the economy. There are more bridges that connect VA to DC (6) than that connect MD to VA (4). That is a pretty serious problem for the state of Maryland a reason why the MD economy is struggling.

Not sure where you got your bridge counts but I would recheck them. You know what else benefits an economy? Highly educated residents

Maybe you should check a map? Certainly would benefit from having higher educated people. I would encourage you to join them.

MD/VA Bridges (4):
- Point of Rocks
- American Legion
- Wilson
- Nice

DC/VA Bridges (6):
- Chain
- Key
- Roosevelt
- Memorial
- 14th St
- 395

So Mr Va education, do you just don't know about the others and or simply not possess the ability to read a map? I'll even spot you and not count little ones like Dunns Swamp Rd (Va 707) that crosses the super famous Pocomoke River. Other than that, I can only assume it is the simple blind confidence that stupid people (Virginians) possess when they are positive they are right even though they know very little on the subject that led to your omissions of Brunswick and Harper's Bridge.

BTW I do live in the better educated state

Did you just spend 2 days looking for a river crossing only to find this meaningless road over in the Eastern Shore? How bruised is your ego?

[Anonymous]

MD is a dump with bad politics. Let’s not build a bridge to let them cross the river.

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[Anonymous]

Md owns the River and is the richer state. It’s so arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Md owns the River and is the richer state. It’s so arrogant.

VA is richer than Maryland. Have you seen Clifton? Clifton is proof that Virginia has more wealth than Maryland

[Anonymous]

VA has a lower GDP than Delaware, It's on par with West Virginia.