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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They really need to put one in. Thoughts?[/quote]

My thought is they needed to put a very large parking garage at the King St metro. 
If there were parking, people who live there would drive and park at the metro station and take metro.

I hate, hate, hate the magical thinking of "people will use public transportation to get to public transportation despite that adding anywhere from a half hour to an hour to their commute!"  
There is no evidence that people in this area are going to abandon their cars even to go 1 mile. [/quote]

No.  The King/Callahan/Russell intersection is bad enough as is.  There is nothing difficult about the 15-20 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from Taylor Run.  Talk about privileged. [/quote]

How often do the buses come?  I had this discussion with someone about Bethesda.  I live more like 2-2.5 miles from the metro and drive in.  It is too far to walk daily and the bus comes every half hour even in rush and would transform an 8-10 minute ride into 20+.  Unless the buses came very frequently, which isn't realistic, there is just no way I am going to take the bus despite the cost of parking.  This is particularly true since I have to get kids and get them to activities and the chance of bus routes lining up is very low.

It's simply a fantasy that some have that people will turn to public transportation to get to metro and restricting parking, as some advocate, is fool hardy.[/quote]

If you live 2-2.5 miles from the metro, you are in Seminary Hill, not Taylor Run.  I am in College Park, which is west of Taylor Run, and the walk to the metro is 1.3 miles. [/quote]

PP lives in Bethesda

But it doesn't matter because 1 mile is too far for people to walk to take the Metro or a bus  everyday if they have the option of driving.  You can say it's not and argue over and over but the reality is born out every single day.  So if planners just actually took into account reality, and planned and implemented that way,  then things would improve.  
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What's *not* "too far?" .8 miles? .5? .25? There is no set number - lazy people will find any reason to continue being lazy. If it's not distance, it'll be complaints about Metro noise, or any number of other excuses.

The fact that anyone finds 1 mile "too far" is such a sad American fact. [/quote]

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