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This obnoxious person apparently doesn't know that Maryland has beaches and an enormous amount of shoreline that generates a significant amount of tourism revenue, which is one of the states biggest economic sectors.

On the other hand, the entire world revolves around the whims and needs of a small handful of people who both choose to live in Montgomery County and chose to not own cars. We should be subsidizing the lifestyle of about 25 people with billions in public investment because they deserve it because they are clearly morally superior to the rest of us.[/quote]

Talk to the person who specifically mentioned Rehoboth, eh? Rehoboth is not in Maryland.

Meanwhile, it's weird how defensive some people are about their car-dependence, and how they insist that everyone else is, and ought to continue to be, as car-dependent as they are. For most people in Montgomery County who don't have access to a car, it's because they can't afford a car (cars are very expensive) or can't drive (due to age or disability). Many other households have fewer than one vehicle per driving adult.

My graduated-high-school-senior kid and their friends want to go spend a week at the Maryland beach. If there were a public-transportation option, they could all get themselves there. But there isn't, so multiple parents will have to drive multiple round trips just to get some 18-year-olds to the beach.[/quote]

I had a legally blind coworker who took a train to Baltimore and caught a bus.  Most people woould consider that too hard but he had no options.[/quote]

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