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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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What’s the alternative? There were plenty of alternatives to rail on dedicated right of way. One of the claims in the litigation over the EIS was that the studies showed that hardly anyone would ride it. Elrich constructively proposed using electric buses instead for a BRT system, which would have been massively cheaper and faster to implement, and was shouted down as a NIMBY.

The whole episode is so tiresome and reveals a lot about how the real estate development crowd uses - knowingly or unknowingly - transit activists as dupes to promote their agenda. If you were pro-transit, I think the lesson here is that you should have been backing Elrich’s plan. But zero self-reflection going on.

In the end, having a Ritz Carlton residence at Chevy Chase Lake is a net positive for the county. However, it should not have come at the expense of untold billions of dollars to state taxpayers.[/quote]

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