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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give it a rest folks, the war is over. Go back to your trenches and find something else to complain about.

Anyone who lives or works around Bethesda and Silver Spring supports the PL, with the understandable exception of those whose property is right on the route.

Fwiw few if any infrastructure projects ever really take traffic off the road, simply because additional lanes or new roads simply change traffic patterns. And because they are typically undertaken in areas that are growing and projected to continue growing -- so traffic by definition was on the rise with or without the project.

The Big Dig in Boston, which was at the time the most expensive project of its kind and took years as well as billions in federal money, was projected to reduce traffic minimally. But anyone who lived or travelled in Boston before and after the project would agree it's been a huge improvement in the quality of life in the city (and in my experience traffic patterns are improved.) So if what you want is fewer cars, you're using the wrong metric.[/quote]

What PP said.

With demographic explosion in the area, we need more transportation options. There will be tons of people riding the Purple Line, and tons of traffic on the roads. Because we will have that many more people!

End of story, and I can't believe it took THIRTY YEARS!
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