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Except moco is a city, dumba$$.

You clowns keep trying to turn suburbia into a concrete jungle like NYC, when it will never work. So yea, it will take 4 hours to do a handful of errands it'd take 45 minutes to do by car because you could never build busses, trains and bike paths to cover the whole area and have the system running with minimal waiting times while having it be economically viable.  Such delusional nonsense.

I need to take fluffy to the vet, get a gallon of milk, and drop stop at FedEx to drop a package off for delivery. Lol, good luck doing that by bus.  Hope you got 6 hours to piss away.[/quote]

So there are actually a lot of neighborhood shopping centers that have grocery stores, vets, and/or shipping storefronts, in walking distance of where a lot of people live, right here in Montgomery County. It also seems foolishly time-consuming and wasteful to transport yourself all the way to the store by SUV, and then transport yourself and a gallon of milk back home by SUV, unless the store is very close by, in which case it's...in walking distance!

But everything is always impossible when a person is bound and determined to make it impossible.[/quote]

If I could go everywhere in a straight line, sure. But I can’t and despite all the posturing about walking and pedestrian safety, [b]the planning board still approves plans that are dangerous for pedestrians and oriented toward car driving.[/b] [/quote]

Yes, they do, although to be fair:

1. a lot of this is determined by setback requirements and, especially, requirements for large fire trucks (there's irony for you, we have to build streets that encourage crashes, so that large fire trucks can get through when they respond to crashes)
2. the planning board doesn't make the real decisions; the real decisions are made by the county department of transportation and the state highway administration, which are producing a lot more talk about safety than actual safety[/quote]

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