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Er I'm not sure I follow the logic of Elrich's vision for development...he's putting the cart before the horse.   [/quote]

From what I can tell, his logic is:

- No new roads upcounty, like expanding I270 or building the mid-county highway (M-83, connecting Germantown and Clarksburg). All those people should take public transportation, or move closer in, in his view.
- But, no new development, especially close in, so I guess those people up-county can't move there anyway.

What we need is a mix of both. We need more roads, and we also need more public transportation. The Purple Line (which Elrich called "ethnic cleansing" due to a few businesses in Silver Spring being displaced during construction) faced staunch opposition from purported environmentalists, and I'm not even sure why -- the only other alternative to connect places like Bethesda and Silver Spring is by car/bus on East West Highway, but that would involve widening it and there's not really room to do so. [/quote]

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