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No kidding. I'm talking about the new urbanist aspirations to make everything look like Manhattan - get rid of cars, etc.

BRT is simply a tool for justifying more dense development where it should not be occurring (esp. Clarksburg, Belward, White Oak).

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Who is telling people to get rid of their cars?

As for your examples -- the master plans at Clarksburg and Belward Farm both predate the county's BRT plan by years. In fact, the Clarksburg master plan predates the county's BRT plan by over 20 years.[/quote]

Straw man responses.

One concept of the new urbanists is to build dense developments with limited parking near transit stations to discourage automobile dependency. Tysons is doing that. MoCo is building dense exburb clusters that will dump more cars on the road - BRT or not.

Belward's phased development staging is tied to CCT funding.  Agree that the damage is already done with Clarksburg an development is continuing to creep up to Frederick.  Since we already have 10s of thousands of new houses there, why cut back on all the new development and use transit funding to improve their access to existing metro stations - or better yet - expand metro to include 2 additional stops in Northern Gaithersburg and Clarksburg?

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Please note the distinction between "making it possible for people to get around without cars" and "forcing people to get rid of their cars". The former gives people transportation choices. This is a good thing.

I agree with you that there are staging requirements for funding the CCT in the Great Seneca Science Corridor Master Plan. This is also a good thing: no funding for the CCT (from Shady Grove to Metropolitan Grove), no development at Belward Farm. Or would you prefer no staging requirements?

What transit funding do you want to use to improve transit access for Clarksburg and northern Gaithersburg? How much would it cost to build these 2 additional Metro stops, and how would you pay for it?[/quote]

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