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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to solve the traffic to the MD/DE shore issue, you would advocate for BRT all the way to the Route 1 transit center in DE and have multiple bus companies running shuttles every 15 minutes from different locations throughout the DC/Baltimore area in season.[/quote]
Says someone that clearly has never taken their family to the beach.  :D

The idea that someone is going to drag a full cooler, chairs and everything else on a bus is probably the funniest thing I have read in a long time.[/quote]

how do you think people got to the beach in previous eras?

There are scores of buses that go up and down the garden state parkway every day from the Port Authority. Why can't we do that here? It would take enough cars off the road to ease the burden for people like you who would prefer to drive. What is the big deal? Give different people different options rather than forcing everyone to drive.[/quote]
Just because they had horse drawn carriages and whale oil lamps in the past does not make us beholden to using them today.[/quote]

I will never understand this. People who insist on driving everywhere should WANT to provide options so that other people don't have to drive everywhere. And yet here are all of these posters on DCUM, explaining how it's impossible for a family to go to the beach on public transportation, and comparing buses to whale oil lamps. It's almost like they love sitting in traffic and want everyone else to sit in traffic with them.[/quote]
You are misconstruing the debate. I am pro everything. You are anti-anything that has to do with cars. If someone wants to take the bus, that’s great. I’m just not going to do it if I don’t have to. But you don’t understand that there actually already are direct bus services to Rehoboth. One picks up in DuPont and takes 3 hours or less, which is great. My view is that taking a car to the beach is a preferable and I would rent one if I didn’t have one. You conversely want to make it difficult for people to drive. So you stand alone there. [/quote]

+1. I was just about to mention the existing bus services! For someone who is so anti-car I’m surprised PP didn’t know about them. Maybe they look down on buses. I’m sure if these were filled every weekend and there was demand for more, more trips would be added.  [/quote]

Not anti-bus, but how does one take their bikes, food, toys, clothes, beach stuff, etc. down to the beach on a bus?  [/quote]

It was more for the PP complaining about the lack of public transport options.  I agree it really only works if you’re staying in a hotel, no kids stuff, and renting beach gear.  [/quote]

Imagine all the teens and twenty somethings taking buses, freeing up road capacity for people like you.[/quote]

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