[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

However, after spending billions over the past two decades on public transit...transit usage dropped 8% in Baltimore and 3% in the Washington metro area.

Gee, who could have guessed that people aren't going to go along with Democrat social engineering fantasies, even when they spend billions of taxpayer dollars on them.

[pepsionice]

I lived for 3.5 years in the Arlington area, and would tend to suggest that mass transit appreciation peaked out around a decade ago.

I would go and suggest that anything that has to do with using more buses, won’t be getting much support from the public. If they’d go and add either more Metro routes into DC, or perhaps just add three or four monorail-type routes from 20 miles out (say large parking lots in the middle of these urban zones) and get you into DC within eight minutes....it would draw more public support.

I worked with one guy who simply gave up. He moved his family about 200 miles away, into better living conditions, and he had a RV camper that he kept in the local area...going back home every weekend.

[mindburglar]

That was confusing. I kept wondering what they were jealous of. Then holy crap there is a guy named Ben Jealous running for Governor!

Hahahahaha! Change yer name to Ben Deredondat...

-You’ve Ben Jealous since the fat kid stole your prom date.

-You’ve Ben Jealous since you stopped growing at 5’4”.

This dude is a walking meme.

[iowamark]

The solution to DC traffic congestion is to cut the DC Federal workforce significantly.

[Haiku Guy]

I lived in Howard County Maryland (pronounced “Hard Kinty Merrlum) when it was nothing but cornfields and cows. Even then, traffic into Washington sucked. Now, all of those cows have been replaced with cars, but all of the traffic is still funneled into the same too small roads. I can only imagine how bad it is now.

[Jimmy Valentine]

The only thing that will work is to move federal agencies out of Washington. There is no room to widen the Beltway R.R. 270 without tearing down neighborhoods. I changed jobs to cut my one way commute from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

[Freee-dame]

Nearly half of Maryland’s transportation spending is devoted mass transit, even though cars account for approximately 97% of all travel.

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. I had not seen this statistic publicized before. What an imbalance!

[sodpoodle]

Carlton R. Sickles, 82, a former Maryland congressman, legislator and champion of the Metrorail transit system who was known to many as “the father of Metro,” died 1/18/2004 at his home in North Bethesda.

I was introduced to Carlton Sickles at doctors’ office by a colleague who stated that I rode the Metro. I had no idea who he was and asked him “Are you someone important?” He laughed and handed me his 35 year service pin.

[fruser1]

One thing they can do is eliminate HOV.

I remember when it started on 270. From then on in traffic began to back up at least 2 miles earlier at the same time of day and never improved so you can’t blame it on many not being used to the new rules.

Also when they lift HOV for an accident traffic is actually better than no accident and HOV in effect.

Also 270 is still 2 lanes most the way to Frederick and the entrance ramps are short. Have to get to speed within a couple hundred feet.

[Elsie]

As serious a problem as transportation is for Marylanders, our candidates offer dramatically different solutions.

Meanwhile; in the middle of Kansas...

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[chris haney]

FUMD

[C19fan]

I think there should a DC Metro bypass highway. It would start in Delaware go down the DELMARVA peninsula cross the Chesapeake Bay and meet I-95 somewhere between Fredericksburg and Richmond.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Recently someone posted a definite truth: more roads or wider roads only leads to more traffic and the same clogging. Oh sure, at first it’s nice, but then more people start moving in or think they can commute longer or using the wider route.

This is a truth most conservatives refuse to see or acknowledge.

Personally I love the DC subway system. NY has a good one. The key is in the planning. Baltimore stinks because these idiots thought they could start with single very long n-s and e-w routes, without anything really connecting them. They are totally inconvenient. Was not planned well.

And yes, I think it would be great to allow private mass transit again.

I favor the old trolley model. It worked great in Baltimore, until GM forced all the trains out.

Honestly, we’re probably stuck with congestion no matter what we do now.