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Anonymous
| Drunken UMD students interested in traveling to staid Bethesda? Funny! |
Anonymous
Drunken DOG-COLLAR-WEARING UMD students interested in traveling to staid Bethesda! |
Anonymous
A PP here. Yeah, didn't you know that Caddie's and the Barking Dog (um, there's already one of those in CP) are the hot places for college kids to be? Oh, and don't forget the always-hip Flanagan's, Rock Bottom, and Union Jack's. |
Anonymous
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The problem with rail is that it's inflexible. Metro was built to take commuters into DC because that's where the traffic was in the 1960s. The money spent on the Purple Line would go much farther if it went to improving bus service and, for that matter, pedestrian safety.
Then, if the five-minute-apart buses between the Bethesda Metro and the Silver Spring Metro were crowded it would be time to think about closing the loop, preferably with an underground Metro line. This Purple Line nonsense is terribly short-sighted. |
Anonymous
Absolutely we can improve bus service. Let's start by making one lane on Jones Bridge Road in each direction a bus-only lane. That will cost next to nothing and speed up bus service significantly. I sincerely love the idea. How do you feel about it? I'm also not sure how you can complain about the expense and inflexibility of the Purple Line and then go right on to recommend an underground Metro line, which would be enormously more expensive. |
Anonymous
| I'm really excited about the Purple Line! I just hope the funding announcement means something. |
Anonymous
It will no doubt cause an increase in crime, as more and more people travel back and forth. That's a given. All cities and areas convenient to cities suffer from that. So you didn't THINK about that before moving to Bethesda and paying top dollar for your box? To me, that's a no-brainer. I can't wait to see how many will flee Bethesda and other "good" areas for the outer burbs. But keep in mind that we don't want you! |
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lol...watt |
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PP here. So Ms. Bethesda doesn't need or want to take public transit to Silver Spring. Good for her. There are plenty of large employment centers in MoCo and PGC, at which people from either county work. This is not news.
If one could take Metro from the New Carrollton station (and gasp, not all of us in PGC are degenerates!) to MoCo without having to go downtown first, or vice versa, there really are few reasons not to. |
Anonymous
My grandparents didn't pay top dollar in 1910 and neither did my parents in the 50's or my family in the 80's. So who exactly is we? |
Anonymous
I take it this is sarcasm? JBR between Conn Avenue and Jones Mill Road is only 2 lanes as it. So you're basically proposing making this a one-way street.... or you're just mocking the PP. Hope it's the latter. My personal preference would be eliminating all the signage (and enforcement) that prohibits rush hour travel thru the fancier CCMD and Bethesda neighborhoods. Once the country club members and trail devotees have to experience the commuters in their own front yards, they will be rushing to support the PL. |
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It's only a matter of time before Bethesda "turns," according to this anti-Purple Line sentiment - and y'all be heading toward the Outer Burbs!
bwahhh haaa haaa haaa! We don't want you!!! Stay in Bethesda and embrace the Purple! It's a regal color!
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I love how all the poeple who DON"T live in Bethesda seem to be experts on the area.
Just love it. |
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Yes, remove all of the traffic restrictions in Chevy Chase and Bethesda between Western and JBR and look how fast the Purple Line gets widespread support.
These people made traffic gutters out of Connecticut, Western, Wisconsin and EW Highway, and then have the 'nads to to raise a stink over the Purple Line? |