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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t trr we ll anyone about Chain Bridge.[/quote]

I don't think there's a problem with current connections between VA and DC. The issue is between VA and MD and MD's boneheaded refusal to improve connections to VA at its own economic detriment.[/quote]

How would it benefit Maryland to spend billions of dollars to build a highway and bridge to make it easier for Marylanders to drive to jobs in Virginia?[/quote]

It would also make it easier for people in Virginia to drive to jobs in Maryland.
I know people who worked in Virginia, lived in Montgomery County.  Once their kids graduated, they moved, as it was literally faster to take a bike and a rowboat across the Potomac, rather than drive 10 miles east to 495 in Maryland and west from 495 in Virginia.[/quote]

How is it socially beneficial for people to live in another state from where they work? Those who work in Tyson’s should live near Tyson’s. Those who work in MoCo should live there. Building multi-billion dollar infrastructure to accommodate a strange desire among some people to commute dozens of miles every day is the very worst kind of welfare.[/quote]
Why stop at objecting to infrastructure for commuting a couple miles? Let’s just force everyone to live only in walking distance to their jobs, aka a “company town”. It’s a tried a true approach that’s totally economically efficient and will ensure they workers can maximize their wages instead of being held captive to employers for their basic welfare.

I swear you people not only want to live in the past, you also want all of us to join you there in the worst possible past imaginable. Living in 19th century company towns paid by script. Living like 16th century peasants and serfs in a “walkable”, walled village. It’s all so hilariously nuts. [/quote]

So, to sum up, you have a job in NoVA but live in MoCo and want the public to pay for a bridge so that you can commute to work faster. Dream big! It is Christmas after all.[/quote]
To sum it up, you buy goods online and expect the public to subsidize their delivery via roads?

How does the economy work again?[/quote]

DP. Are you a delivery driver? If so, do you ever sit in traffic thinking, "I really wish all those people who are only transporting only themselves in their car (no goods, no equipment) could find a different way to transport themselves to work, so that I wouldn't have to sit in the traffic they create?"[/quote]

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