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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Hah - that's about a mile from where my wife grew up but truth be told I've only been to Kentlands once though I've been to Gaithersburg many times.

Look these suburban places prove that people even in the suburbs want and will utilize walkable neighborhoods and that that density facilities vibrant retail areas.

Which is great and it should be a roadmap to how all of these future places are planned because we have a lot of proof that it works and we need suburbs to be less car oriented if we are going to get out of this global warming mess we are in.

But making transit work to the point that it is highly utilized in these places is a real challenge when they aren't connected to one seat rides to dense job centers."

[b]Not everyone works in DC.[/b] However, one of my neighbors does and really enjoys her commute.

Of course, I would take public transit to my job, but even when I lived in DC, it was a PITA because our public transportation system in the DMV sucks. I ended up driving after the bus schedule was cut to the point where it was impossible. 
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That is definitely true.

But a lot of this regions jobs are in the core and on transit lines and it appears that more of those jobs will be in the future - witness Marriott relocating to Bethesda and all of the densification going on there and once the Purple and Silver Lines are finished even more of the regions job centers will be well served by high quality transit.

If you can even get one of the two (presumed) working halves of a couple living in the suburbs on public transit to work every day and if that enables those couples to go from 2 car households to one car households that saves those households a lot of money and reduces driving by a lot and that is a big victory for the region.[/quote]

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