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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, hey Dan!

I never even said I was pro widening 270.

But lots of us pay for lots of things we dont personally use.  Thats how budgets/taxes work, and I'm just fine with that.

But I wont be shamed for driving (my hybrid) to commute to a job that pays the bills, that happens to be 25 miles from a house I can afford.

I'm a proud MD dem, but just becauase im not a full on DSA, hard leftist, means I'm somehow racist for caring about property values?   Most people's biggest investment of their lives??   Yeah- thats where I get off the train, thanks. [/quote]

Sure we all pay for things we don't use but the 270 widening alone will cost more than the State of MD has spent on capital costs for Metrorail in its entire history and this is not even a new road - the State spent billions on the current iteration of the road and that is not even getting into the significantly higher costs of building new infra in exurbs or busing kids to school out there in hell.

BTW driving a hybrid doesn't magically get you off the hook for living 25 miles from where you work and all of the negative environmental externalities - driving a more fuel efficient car only lessens those externalities and does nothing about all the negatives of sprawly land use.

So yeah in fact your drive until you qualified for a house with a yard choice disproportionately cost the rest of us (and our planet) so no I'm not really sure the rest of us should be subsidizing it.  My family does just fine with a tiny yard and one car which helps to offset our higher housing costs (including higher taxes BTW) so I'm not really feeling the love in subsidizing your planet killing choices so you get a yard.[/quote]

Excuse me? Get off your high horse please.

I'm not "on the hook" for anything.   And no one is subsidizing my family's choice except ourselves.   I'm glad you can afford your expensive house and high property taxes.  I dont judge you, and good for you.  Dont judge my (and tens of thousand's of other's choice) either.  Especially since it was forced by the current zoning and cost of living. [/quote]

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