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DP.  But Bethesda won't.  Bethesda relies to a significant degree on people who cannot walk there. There simply aren't enough people in walking distance to sustain the vibrant area we seem to all want. If it got to the point that people 2 mikes from Bethesda really didn't go there, Bethesda could not sustain itself.

Look at this way, Bethesda garages are currently packed with people throughout the week and weekend.  Those thousands and thousands of people are all shopping, eating, working, etc.  If parking were curtailed so that only half that number could come into Bethesda, you really don't think that would have an adverse impact?[/quote]

This is a circular argument. There has to be parking because people drive to get to downtown Bethesda so there has to be parking because people drive to get to downtown Bethesda so...

Lots of people ALREADY don't drive in downtown Bethesda. After the Purple Line opens, and more housing in downtown Bethesda gets built, even more people won't drive in downtown Bethesda. [b]We want people to be in downtown Bethesda without driving.[/b] So why would we keep building parking that encourages people to be in downtown Bethesda with driving?

You can have a dense urban place, or you can have a place with lots of easy parking that people drive to, but you can't have both.[/quote]

No, you want people in downtown Bethesda without driving.  That isn't remotely a universal view and most people recognize that people coming in and parking will and should still be an important part of Bethesda.  The purple line won't change that since it won't impact wide areas where people drive in from now.  Your vision of the future is both a distinctly minority view and wildly unrealistic.

And you can have it both ways, as we do now.  You seem to think "urban" has to be extreme density where cars aren't really appropriate.  Bethesda will never be that and most people in and around Bethesda wouldn't want that even if it were possible.[/quote]

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