It's not Wheaton vs. Bethesda, but smart growth vs. bad
19.05.12
Thank you Mr. Wilk for showing how easy it can be to do the right thing. Just two day's ago in the Washington Post they had this whole insert on Americas squandering one of the key components of economic development and competativeness, letting rail transit languish. As so many anti-purple line people never fail to say, it wouldn't take one car off the roads, to which I always say right! That's not the point, the point is to keep another 100,000 cars off the road which is what's going to happen if we don't plan for smart growth.
My guess is O'Malley will find the money for the purple line etc. becasue there's been a growning concensus that the 1,000,000 people of Montgomery County are the largest economic generator of the state, more so than Baltimore. If the county is to remain competative and thus keep delivering a lot of taxes to the rest of the state, it has to be cultivated to grow.
Getting MDOT to focus on the pedestrian after decades of catering to the suburban developers is going to take time, but the money argument is one that's very hard to refute, as long as our politicians have the guts to make it.
Source: Greater Greater Washington