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I would be happy to see the federal govt take steps to improve economic development in declining rust belt cities, which desperately need growth, have surplus housing and often under utilized infrastructure.

I fear though that limiting growth in places like DC, SF, etc will just mean more people moving to sprawl in the sunbelt.

Locally something we can do is try to encourage more jobs in PG County.  That would shorten commutes for residents of PG and Charles Cos, and reduce congestion in other areas. [/quote]

The only thing that reduced congestion is more mass transit with better headways. Anything short of that, there will be more and more single occupancy cars clogging the roads.[/quote]

MWCOG says better jobs/housing balance would also do that, along with many transit focused strategies.  The number of people who commute from PG all the way into Virginia, and similar lack of balance, adds to vehicle miles traveled.   It also makes it more difficult to fully leverage transit operations and capital, because we don't get reverse transit commuters to PG.  And it means fewer commuters by active transportation (bike/ped) because commutes from PG, Charles, etc are so long.

Of course it's better that new jobs in PG are in transit oriented locations.  New Carrolton, with metro, MARC, Amtrak and in two year, the Purple Line,  would be a good location.  [/quote]

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