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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same story as usual, take a lot of poor minorities' land to expand for shitty highways.  Good thing it has been pared back....for now.

Funny how we can't get public transportation because rich assholes in Bethesda and Chevy Chase though are angry that the purple line might cause a little bit of inconvenience.  Build over where those poor minorities live though?  No problem!

God America sucks.  All anyone can ever think about is stupid car centric transportation We should be trying to develop like an actual 1st world country like Japan, Germany, China, Singapore, or South Korea. [/quote]

WTH are you talking about? The PL was halted because contractors left the job. It's not the fault of anybody living in Bethesda or Chevy Chase. Sorry to interrupt your rant with facts.[/quote]

Sorry you are too dumb to keep up with the news for exactly WHY the contractors left.  Keep up before spewing garbage on the keyboard. Good grief.[/quote]
The contractors quit because they looked at the economics of the project and realized that there would not be enough ridership to make it profitable.

This is my favorite GGW bit.

They demagogues Vince Gray for not supporting the streetcar. The streetcar gets built and it’s a disaster and they just don’t talk about it anymore or when they do it’s the city’s fault for “poor implementation”. “Clearly it needed dedicated lanes” they say now, which they didn’t say before.

Demagogue people that don’t support the Purple Line as racist. The Purple Line is an epic disaster and they now don’t talk about it or blame the people that had opposed it because they knew it would be a disaster in the first place. Note that the most significant opposition was about the PPP structure that GGW loved. The contractors used favorable clauses to walk away because they realized that there would not be enough ridership to make it profitable for them.

It’s like the communists, perfect communism has never been tried they always say.

Meantime GGW never examines WHY the things they advocate and the outcomes they predict never work out. [/quote]

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