Anonymous wrote:The purple line is the worst and dumbest tax taxpayer funded project in MD history. Such a colossal waste of our money.

And yes, Bethesda Row will have much, much more crime and overcrowding.

The freight rail line was planned for decades for light rail conversion by the county. Discussions began in the 1970s well before many of us were even alive. Then a republican governor went all in to enthusiastically support the Purple Line project posing for the photo ops and what have you. Even years of lawsuits by a seemingly endless array of anti-transit advocates—bike advocates, nature lovers, rail trail boosters, the town of Chevy Chase, friends of the chevy chase library, and the wealthy country club members—couldn’t stop it.

Overall the Purple Line will be an economic boon for the region. And despite the naysayers, will be wildly popular for years to come. Imagine taking the Purple Line from Bethesda to College Park for a public lecture by an academic followed by a relaxing dinner in Silver Spring, at Red Lobster for example.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never been to downtown Bethesda, is it worth going there?

No, it's terrible. Don't waste your time.

It has good schools professors at Maryland want a nice place to live, that is why the purple line is going in.

Going out in Bethesda is like entering the 9 circles of he$$

Is it LGBT friendly there or is it mostly straight people that would look at a visibly queer couple like we don't belong there? I've been to Takoma Park and felt safe and absolutely fine.

Bethesda is in Montgomery County. There are visibly queer couples everywhere in Montgomery County. Even in Damascus at the Jimmie Cone.

I wouldn't go to Bethesda as a tourist destination, but it's a perfectly fine place, unless you're somebody who's super mad about tall buildings and the fact that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never been to downtown Bethesda, is it worth going there?

No, it's terrible. Don't waste your time.

It has good schools professors at Maryland want a nice place to live, that is why the purple line is going in.

Going out in Bethesda is like entering the 9 circles of he$$

Is it LGBT friendly there or is it mostly straight people that would look at a visibly queer couple like we don't belong there? I've been to Takoma Park and felt safe and absolutely fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Op isn’t wrong to worry. Ever since Tysons got the metro, we have seen crime go up. I live a mile from Tysons in McLean, so we are acutely aware of the changes . The only difference is Fairfax county police does not coddle criminals like in MoCo, thank god for small mercies.

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Also leave near Tysons. Crime has greatly increased and the timing is in direct line to the metro opening there.

This is a feature, not a bug. To those making transit decisions in the DC metro area, it is more equitable to spread crime to high SES mostly white areas. If some neighborhoods are crime-ridden and unsafe, all must be.

It is a pity that the Purple line is kinda slow, but even then, I suspect it will be even more successful than some of their boosters expect.

One day it will be hard to imagine the area without it, just like imagining DC without the Metro would be.

Anonymous wrote:The purple line is the worst and dumbest tax taxpayer funded project in MD history. Such a colossal waste of our money.

And yes, Bethesda Row will have much, much more crime and overcrowding.

It's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.

Anonymous wrote:I've never been to downtown Bethesda, is it worth going there?

No, it's terrible. Don't waste your time.

It has good schools professors at Maryland want a nice place to live, that is why the purple line is going in.

Going out in Bethesda is like entering the 9 circles of he$$

Anonymous wrote:I've never been to downtown Bethesda, is it worth going there?

If you have to ask...

I've never been to downtown Bethesda, is it worth going there?

Anonymous wrote:The purple line is the worst and dumbest tax taxpayer funded project in MD history. Such a colossal waste of our money.

Bethesda and Silver Spring are the largest economic centers in the county. How do you propose people travel between them as the county grows? East-West Highway and 495 both cannot be expanded due to housing already in place.

The purple line is the worst and dumbest tax taxpayer funded project in MD history. Such a colossal waste of our money.

And yes, Bethesda Row will have much, much more crime and overcrowding.

Anonymous wrote:Install those walk-through weapons detectors in the easternmost Purple Line stations. That should reduce the potential for it becoming the criminals' shuttle to Bethesda Row.

The number one deterrent is that it will be operated by a private company with a profit motive to not allow people to ride without paying a fare.

The second deterrent, related to the first, is that unless there is a massive fare subsidy in addition to the $200 million per year operating subsidy that the state is obliged to pay, the Purple Line will be ridiculously expensive.

Anonymous wrote:Install those walk-through weapons detectors in the easternmost Purple Line stations. That should reduce the potential for it becoming the criminals' shuttle to Bethesda Row.

The problem with metro is criminals also use it to slip away, easy escape. Anything that slows people.dowb entering is good.

Install those walk-through weapons detectors in the easternmost Purple Line stations. That should reduce the potential for it becoming the criminals' shuttle to Bethesda Row.

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Anonymous wrote:Op should just say they’re racist instead of all this fake concern. There’s nothing stopping the “wrong people” from taking the red line up to Bethesda Row already.

The purple line will let people go from Bethesda to silver spring very quickly and painlessly. Id love to go meet my friends at Denizens and not have to drive back

I am not PP but I guess I am racist if I don't want crime. It's not rocket science to see who is doing the looting and carjackings? Funny, I've never seen a 15yr old in a Landon hoodie rob Nike.

Say what you want but there are not many looters/carjackers with Bethesda addresses. They come from other areas and come via public transit.

I guess the question is whom do you think actually WANTS crime. That's always the weirdest discriminator/declaration - who wants sh!t schools and crime??? Maybe the question is who you think deserves them?

Obviously PP thinks people live in the city because they want bad schools and crime. It's like the idiots who keep saying "you voted for this!" whenever people complain about DC.

but you did vote for politicians who do not punish criminals or do not want to greatly increase their investment into policing/crime reduction.