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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the alternative between to get between places like Bethesda, Silver Spring, and College Park?

We can't build or expand roads -- East-West Highway has houses on both sides, and it's backed up during rush hour and often outside of it too. Same with getting to CP.

The most efficient way to move people is mass transport. How else could it have been done?

As for the bike path, let's not forget this was built originally as a train track. We're now converting it to mixed use, and that takes time.

Not a real estate developer or connected to the project at all, I'm just surprised to see opposition to mass transit.
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We're about a decade past peak mass transit in America. There are a lot of folks on the winning side of the transit wars: from oil companies to the Koch Brothers to almost all of the GOP to NIMBYs and lawyers in Chevy Chase. Congratulations. Looks like you're turning your attention to the nation's public school systems.

The Purple Line was always going to be a tough sell because it would be bringing poorer/browner people into wealthier/whiter areas. Also, the project got going 20 years after the window of success for this project. By the time the state got around to committing to the project in the mid-2010s, they were holding a bad hand. And they played it very very badly. [/quote]

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