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I've never seen clouds of black pollution puffing out of cyclists. Maybe they should've just skipped the railroad phase altogether and made it a bike trail from the start. [/quote]

The rail line was built in 1889.   There was not really demand for a bike trail in that area in those days.   And the rail line was needed to bring coal to Georgetown.

But good luck with your time machine![/quote]

and why did the original train go away?  The same reason why the purple line will go down as the largest failed transit operations.  Things evolve, transit ridership is down across the country because of the changing work schedule.

How many of you  had parents that worked from home or knew a parent that worked from home?  How many of you work from home or know someone who does?  The ridership will not recover, it has been declining for the past 3 years and has nothing to do with the woes metro has because the other jurisdictions don't have the problems metro has.  [/quote]

Spoken like someone who does not commute on a regular basis in this area. Get a job and then complain about how additional public transportation is unnecessary.[/quote]

No, spoken like an entitled rich person who moans about how poor they are at $300K.

With a stop at UMD, the Purple line will increase opportunities for students living in Montgomery County to commute to UMD.  It will allow many people who live in Montgomery County for the schools, but commute to the IRS, FDA, National Archives, CDC, NASA, UMD, Census Bureau, NOAA Suitland,  plus companies like Lockheed Martin, and a ton of beltway bandits serving the above list of federal agencies.  It will also allow people who live in PG county for less expensive housing to commute to places like NIH, Walter Reed, NRC, NOAA Silver Spring, and NIST.  Additionally it will allow lower hourly wage employees who can't afford to live in Montgomery County so live in PG County and commute to MoCo, to do so.  There are plenty of people who are barristas, wait staff, retail clerks, cashiers, janitors or cleaning crews, receptionists and many more who make that commute.  If you really think that public transit that will save people money in this region, one of the most expensive areas to live in the country, you are grossly out-of-touch with reality.  The median HHI in MD is around $85K.  There are 6.5 million households in the Washington DC metro area.  In the MD suburbs, there are around 2-3M households.  Of those, 1-1.5M households make $85K or less.  That's a lot of households that will appreciate options that mean they don't have to maintain an extra car or that they can expand their options for employment to MoCo because they have a reliable way to commute there (the bus lines are horrible between the counties and are not reliable).

And that does not even account for those who will use the line to commute for games at FedEx Field and UMD campus.

You are clueless.[/quote]

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