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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you got your's, screw everyone else?[/quote]

Don't know which post you are responding to but the additional growth means more, not fewer, people can enjoy the various opportunities this region offers.  [b]If the growth is done correctly (mixed use neighborhoods anchored by high quality transit) it doesn't necessarily make traffic worse[/b].[/quote]

yeah but you know this won't happen. so, worse traffic.[/quote]

Actually it has happened in.a bunch of inside the beltway neighborhoods, particularly Arlington but also DC, Silver Spring. Bethesda.

Traffic gets worse because more people drive. [b] I work in a transit friemdly location- virtually everyone I work with could do.some or all of their trip to.work on public transit and a couple of people who drive are close enough to.walk or bike but choose not to. 
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The choices people make are a bit part of the mess we are in but most people do have choices.

BTW I have two highly programmed kids and relying in ways other than a car has had zero impact on our ability to get to things but that is mostly a reflection of where we chose to live.[/quote]

Yup. I know people who live very close to transit, work very close to transit (in downtown Bethesda, even), drive to work (because transit, ew), and complain non-stop about the traffic.[/quote]

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