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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virginia didn’t do as good of a job as Maryland in planning and building around Metro stops.  They were mostly planned like a regular train station.[/quote]

Wut?   https://www.smartergrowth.net/virginia/arlington/

[i]Winner of the first EPA Smart Growth Award and the Coalition for Smarter Growth’s Capital Region Visionary Award, Arlington County is a national leader in transit-oriented development, affordable housing, transit, and street design.

Arlington’s journey began when it decided to construct Metro’s Orange Line under the Rosslyn-Ballston (R-B) corridor, rather than aboveground in the middle of I-66, and created their “bullseye” plan for the Metro stations.

Today, Arlington boasts 50 million square feet of transit-oriented development in the R-B corridor alone and has done so without increasing traffic. The land in their two Metro corridors (their other one is Pentagon City/Crystal City) occupies just 11 percent of the county, but provides 50 percent of the tax base. 39 percent of trips in the R-B corridor are made by transit, walking, and bicycling.[/i][/quote]

What’s the point in this?  You don’t point out one or a few  well designed station and say Virginia planned the metro stations well.  That literally doesn’t mean that.  Unless you think Arlington is Northern Virginia and all the rest of the stations are Central VA.  Maryland has done a better job developing around the Metro.  That’s a fact.  Virginia is trying to improve.[/quote]

Then why can’t all the Maryland people who drive to Virginia for jobs commute by Metro? [/quote]

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