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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Destroying a wonderful local bike trail and many people’s homes and neighborhoods just so you can get from Silver Spring to Bethesda in 20 minutes vs 45 doesn’t make it worth it.

All you care about is your being able to get around quickly. You give absolutely no thought to the homes and neighborhoods that had to be destroyed to accommodate you.

You’re a bully, abled by eminent domain. [/quote]

First, the land was always intended for public transit from the time the trail was purchased many years ago. The fact that an unofficial bike trail was created does not give you squatters rights to the land that the government owns.

Second, as another PP pointed out, the plans include a better and improved biking, hiking trail that is paved and wider, so that it allowed better traffic in both directions along the entire trail.

Third, while the trip from Silver Spring to Bethesda is a side benefit, the primary benefit is to allow tens of thousands of riders a day to commute between PG County and MoCo.  It will allow more people to just commute from MoCo to UMD daily than the number of residents that were impacted by the construction.  It will also accommodate similar numbers of commuters from PGC to NIH.  And there are more than either of those who will use the line daily for other purposes.  One of the problems MoCo has is that as a wealthy county, they have more than their share of luxuries that require minimum wage or near low cost hourly workers to support.  And the majority of those workers cannot afford to live in the county itself.  You import a lot of Starbucks barristas, supermarket clerks/baggers/stockers, janitors, maids, secretaries, receptionists, etc who commute from Silver Spring, College Park and other parts of PGC.  This gives many of them public transport options instead of driving themselves to work.

Very typical wealthy, privileged attitude.  The majority of those neighborhoods and residents are well off and selfishly want to preserve their luxuries and home values over the greater good for the population.  This infrastructure will benefit exponentially more people than it will hurt and is a necessary solution for some of the many transportation issues that this region faces due to the continued expansion of the population.  [/quote]

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