tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post8176848625501076283..comments2024-02-28T11:29:36.860-05:00Comments on just up the pike: on the red line, new battles for old freeway fightersDan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-13573593323942759272007-11-07T12:04:00.000-05:002007-11-07T12:04:00.000-05:00Time to go Back to Va you redneck, anti-Spanish pe...Time to go Back to Va you redneck, anti-Spanish people, KKK member Virginian always putting down the MARYLAND ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE while your STAGNANT VIRGINIA sinks further and further in the state rankings. You are writing on Montgomery COunty Blogs, THE MOST EDUCATED COUNTY with the HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY and the STATE WITH THE HIGHEST INCOME IN AMERICA. Go back to your STAGNANT VIRGINIA HELL-HOLE LEx. Go Back to VA Lex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-35240716502114199722007-11-05T17:20:00.000-05:002007-11-05T17:20:00.000-05:00Anonymous said...RE: And the Oscar Winning Perfor...Anonymous said...<BR/>RE: And the Oscar Winning <BR/>Performance goes to the Maryland hating Virginia Troll playing the character of a disgruntled Maryland citizen that criticize Virginia for its Top Notch Upscale Development, High Paying Employment Growth, Mass Transit, and Highway Building..........<BR/><BR/>November 05, 2007 12:53 PM<BR/><BR/>And the Country Music Award goes to that white trash Virginian who always seeks to inflame the achievements of his STAGNANT, regressive, eternally gridlocked, inferior quality of life hell hole and put down the center of Washington UPSCALE RETAIL AT THE COLLECTION AT CHEVY CHASE, plus our 20 story highrises going up in BETHESDA, SILVER SPRING, and WHITE FLINT while TYSONS CORNER has not seen any new development in YEARS. That redneck advacated Virginia's INFERIOR MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM with less Metro stations, and car-oriented development while Maryland is PIONEERS SMART GROWTH with its soaring skyscrapers in Baltimore that make Rosslyn's look like TOYS. And MARYLAND's CONSTRUCTION OF THE ICC, the first new highway in the region in DECADES while the VIRGINIA road network has not seen any major new highway in DECADES. GO back to you STAGNANT, SECOND-RATE, POOR STATE and leave MARYLAND ALONE TO BE the RICHEST and MOST HIGHLY EDUCATED STATE IN THE NATION with its POWERHOUSE ECONOMY, LOW UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, UPSCALE URBAN CENTERS, and TOP NOTCH UNIVERSITIES.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-24058577844829896502007-11-05T14:30:00.000-05:002007-11-05T14:30:00.000-05:00Back to the actual issue - how is it a "controvers...Back to the actual issue - how is it a "controversy" when no one wnats it? where is the debate? I just think it is dumb growth - low-density housing with 2-car garages immediately next to a metro station! THAT should be criminal. Force the developer to build denser with NO parking amenities for the homeowners while ADDING bus bays and more future transit options - though I'd miss my cut-thru green patch, I'd certainly be willing to live with it then.<BR/> The Cameron Hills townhomes by the SS metro should be a LESSON to this one - almost exact same situation and now 10 years later ask the CH surrounding neighbors if that was really the best use of that prime land.WashingtonGardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03950523974356540767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-3972073213167878522007-11-05T12:53:00.000-05:002007-11-05T12:53:00.000-05:00Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Ol' Mary...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/> Anonymous said...<BR/> Ol' Maryland hating Anti-Progressive CONfederate Flag Supporting Southern Redneck Country Hillbilly..........<BR/><BR/> November 03, 2007 3:19 AM<BR/><BR/> RE: You REDNECK Neo-Nazi Racist Bigot AMERICAN-HATER KKK member Virginia-lover. Go Back to your redneck radical conservative state. Montgomery County is fine with its NEW MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT AROUND METRO STATIONS including SILVER SPRING AND WHITE FLINT while piece of garbage places like TYSONS remain STAGNANT FOR YEARS with NO MAJOR NEW CONSTRUCTION, HIGH VACANCY RATE, LIMITED PROPERTY VALUES and a new UGLY elevated rail line that will rip through along 10-lane highways and will not allow for any major urban development, meanwhile WHITE FLINT, BETHESDA, and SILVER SPRING EXPLODE with new high-rises with GROUND FLOOR RETAIL IN PEDESTRIAN FREINDLY ENVIRONMENTS. You STAGNANT Northern Virginians cannot compete with the MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POWERHOUSE including THE LARGEST DEFENCE CONTRACTOR IN THE WORLD AND THE LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN IN THE WORLD.<BR/><BR/> November 03, 2007 11:00 AM<BR/><BR/>RE: And the Oscar Winning Performance goes to the Maryland hating Virginia Troll playing the character of a disgruntled Maryland citizen that criticize Virginia for its Top Notch Upscale Development, High Paying Employment Growth, Mass Transit, and Highway Building..........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-8171500869263870502007-11-04T07:42:00.000-05:002007-11-04T07:42:00.000-05:00You know-this rude name calling and personal attac...You know-this rude name calling and personal attacks against the Virginians is just proof that the people in Maryland still have a large group of loud mouth redneck white trash- who instead of arguing the merits of the case resort to trashing the oppossition.<BR/><BR/>How about if you just ignored the comments of these anti-development N.Va people and deal with the issues.<BR/><BR/>After all Montgomery County is still the best educated County- lets demonstrate this in publicrtsindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732950848044059264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-30048121471189194482007-11-03T11:00:00.000-04:002007-11-03T11:00:00.000-04:00Anonymous said... Ol' Maryland hating Anti-Progres...Anonymous said... <BR/>Ol' Maryland hating Anti-Progressive CONfederate Flag Supporting Southern Redneck Country Hillbilly..........<BR/><BR/>November 03, 2007 3:19 AM<BR/><BR/>RE: You REDNECK Neo-Nazi Racist Bigot AMERICAN-HATER KKK member Virginia-lover. Go Back to your redneck radical conservative state. Montgomery County is fine with its NEW MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT AROUND METRO STATIONS including SILVER SPRING AND WHITE FLINT while piece of garbage places like TYSONS remain STAGNANT FOR YEARS with NO MAJOR NEW CONSTRUCTION, HIGH VACANCY RATE, LIMITED PROPERTY VALUES and a new UGLY elevated rail line that will rip through along 10-lane highways and will not allow for any major urban development, meanwhile WHITE FLINT, BETHESDA, and SILVER SPRING EXPLODE with new high-rises with GROUND FLOOR RETAIL IN PEDESTRIAN FREINDLY ENVIRONMENTS. You STAGNANT Northern Virginians cannot compete with the MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POWERHOUSE including THE LARGEST DEFENCE CONTRACTOR IN THE WORLD AND THE LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN IN THE WORLD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-77396097613310435912007-11-03T03:19:00.000-04:002007-11-03T03:19:00.000-04:00Anonymous said... Anonymous said... RE: NO!!...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/> Anonymous said...<BR/> RE: NO!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/> They are a bunch of Maryland Discriminating Rednecks(Bitter from loosing their Blue Collar Coal Mining/Steel Jobs in Baltimore back in the 50's and 60's) from Va, NC/SC, and GA that disguise themselves as Left Wing Marylanders in determination to Corrupt the state with little to no source of Employment Growth, lack of sprawling Urban/Suburban Development, No Source of Limited Access Highways to get to their destination at a high rate speed, and increasing the Burdens of 3rd World Illegal Latino Immigrants in which it is why Northern Virginia wants to remove them from their region and force them to migrate to Maryland...........<BR/><BR/> November 02, 2007 12:08 AM<BR/><BR/> You Northern Virginia REDNECKS always trying to SABOTAGE Maryland with your CLOSET RACIST hating of spanish people and always putting down the MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POWERHOUSE that has made MARYLAND the WEALTHIEST STATE IN AMERICA and Montgomery County the MOST EDUCATED COUNTY IN AMERICA. We don't need to hear your anti-Maryland neo-Nazi racist crap over here. Go back to your redneck friends in Northern Virginia.<BR/><BR/> November 02, 2007 10:07 AM<BR/><BR/>RE: Ol' Maryland hating Anti-Progressive CONfederate Flag Supporting Southern Redneck Country Hillbilly..........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-21859827443621075402007-11-02T10:07:00.000-04:002007-11-02T10:07:00.000-04:00Anonymous said...RE: NO!!!!!!!They are a bunch of ...Anonymous said...<BR/>RE: NO!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>They are a bunch of Maryland Discriminating Rednecks(Bitter from loosing their Blue Collar Coal Mining/Steel Jobs in Baltimore back in the 50's and 60's) from Va, NC/SC, and GA that disguise themselves as Left Wing Marylanders in determination to Corrupt the state with little to no source of Employment Growth, lack of sprawling Urban/Suburban Development, No Source of Limited Access Highways to get to their destination at a high rate speed, and increasing the Burdens of 3rd World Illegal Latino Immigrants in which it is why Northern Virginia wants to remove them from their region and force them to migrate to Maryland...........<BR/><BR/>November 02, 2007 12:08 AM<BR/><BR/>You Northern Virginia REDNECKS always trying to SABOTAGE Maryland with your CLOSET RACIST hating of spanish people and always putting down the MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POWERHOUSE that has made MARYLAND the WEALTHIEST STATE IN AMERICA and Montgomery County the MOST EDUCATED COUNTY IN AMERICA. We don't need to hear your anti-Maryland neo-Nazi racist crap over here. Go back to your redneck friends in Northern Virginia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-54323950083023546992007-11-02T00:14:00.000-04:002007-11-02T00:14:00.000-04:00nancy said... The development in question at Ta...nancy said...<BR/><BR/> The development in question at Takoma Metro would reduce the space for buses. Bashing -- or banishing -- buses is a consistent theme in "smart" growth. Of course, the people who churn out these "smart" growth plans do not ride buses with those good 'ol common folk who would allegedly benefit from all that concrete.<BR/><BR/>RE: Again what makes you think that those people truely are Maryland citizens.....<BR/><BR/>For all we know they could be well paid rednecks from Roanoke, Va. pretending to be Maryland Citizens just to make Maryland look like a National Joke while Virginia is praised as the Suburban Upscale Model of the Nation.........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-79118979227008287252007-11-02T00:10:00.000-04:002007-11-02T00:10:00.000-04:00Segwayman said... Wouldn't it be cheaper just t...Segwayman said...<BR/><BR/> Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy a Segway for every one of the planned 20K riders/day and build a Segway lane along the Beltway? Segways are the mode of transportation of the future. Buy one today. http://www.segway.com/<BR/><BR/> October 31, 2007 12:35 PM<BR/><BR/>RE: Where is the Spam Blocker when ya need it...............Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-83941726734913494972007-11-02T00:08:00.000-04:002007-11-02T00:08:00.000-04:00Anonymous said... The same pot-smoking Takoma P...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/> The same pot-smoking Takoma Park hippy NIMBYs that want to kill the ICC and develop overdensity around every other Metro station except the one that is in TAKOMA PARK need to support smart growth starting in their own community. That includes building high-rises around the Takoma Metro station and in old Takoma Park and rerouting the Purple Line along MD 410 instead of some bizarre route through East Silver Spring. They won't do that becauase they are NIMBY hipocrites<BR/><BR/> October 30, 2007 6:28 PM<BR/><BR/>RE: NO!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>They are a bunch of Maryland Discriminating Rednecks(Bitter from loosing their Blue Collar Coal Mining/Steel Jobs in Baltimore back in the 50's and 60's) from Va, NC/SC, and GA that disguise themselves as Left Wing Marylanders in determination to Corrupt the state with little to no source of Employment Growth, lack of sprawling Urban/Suburban Development, No Source of Limited Access Highways to get to their destination at a high rate speed, and increasing the Burdens of 3rd World Illegal Latino Immigrants in which it is why Northern Virginia wants to remove them from their region and force them to migrate to Maryland...........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-42025058307373095072007-11-01T23:56:00.000-04:002007-11-01T23:56:00.000-04:00rtsind said... It appears that the one question...rtsind said...<BR/><BR/> It appears that the one question that never crops up during disussion of development in or around the Metro and the concept of "Smart Growth"-- is "What about the families"?<BR/><BR/> Condos and apts, are geared toward single or one child families-- what ever happend to houses with back yards.<BR/><BR/> The Purple Line and the ICC will destroy backyards parks and open fields.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>RE: The Dulles Toll Road/Greenway, Fairfax/Prince William County Parkways, and the Springfield Interchange Destroyed SEVERAL Acres of Backyard Parks and Open Fields but that didn't stop you Maryland Hating Virginians from supporting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-3238797924549496112007-11-01T19:39:00.000-04:002007-11-01T19:39:00.000-04:00For those who have not visited Seminary place-- yo...For those who have not visited Seminary place-- you should do so---You will notice how narrow the road is running through the development-one lane in each direction--no sidewalk.<BR/><BR/>There are no plans to widen the roads or add a sidewalk-- Seminary Place will be adding about 130 additional cars to the road- they are a bunch of over-priced condos and townhomes that do noy have anything to do with Smart Growth,rtsindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732950848044059264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-75670675242312798662007-10-31T20:04:00.000-04:002007-10-31T20:04:00.000-04:00The development in question at Takoma Metro would ...The development in question at Takoma Metro would reduce the space for buses. Bashing -- or banishing -- buses is a consistent theme in "smart" growth. Of course, the people who churn out these "smart" growth plans do not ride buses with those good 'ol common folk who would allegedly benefit from all that concrete.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-79714933383963789712007-10-31T12:35:00.000-04:002007-10-31T12:35:00.000-04:00Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy a Segway for ev...Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy a Segway for every one of the planned 20K riders/day and build a Segway lane along the Beltway? Segways are the mode of transportation of the future. Buy one today. http://www.segway.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-91116145449021667262007-10-31T01:26:00.000-04:002007-10-31T01:26:00.000-04:00Er, no.Er, no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-19062113420641378722007-10-30T23:39:00.000-04:002007-10-30T23:39:00.000-04:00If the students of the University of Maryland are ...If the students of the University of Maryland are going to provide the largest group of passengers for the Purple Line, wouldn't it be cheaper to build a smaller campus in the Bethesda /Silver Spring area, instead of destroying valuable park land and homes?mcknifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10381170918045480669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-61864311918267139322007-10-30T20:55:00.000-04:002007-10-30T20:55:00.000-04:00Yes, the Takoma Park folks should support the proj...Yes, the Takoma Park folks should support the project around the Metro station. It would probably be better if it was denser, but the politically effective objections are coming from people who think it's too dense, not from people who think it's not dense enough. Anyone who objects on the ground it's not dense enough is just aiding the NIMBYs who want even less density.<BR/><BR/>But as for the Purple Line - MD410 is not the best route. The potential ridership is much greater through Langley Park. And that's the route that goes to the Maryland campus, which has the biggest potential ridership of allAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-65279764382150521992007-10-30T18:28:00.000-04:002007-10-30T18:28:00.000-04:00The same pot-smoking Takoma Park hippy NIMBYs that...The same pot-smoking Takoma Park hippy NIMBYs that want to kill the ICC and develop overdensity around every other Metro station except the one that is in TAKOMA PARK need to support smart growth starting in their own community. That includes building high-rises around the Takoma Metro station and in old Takoma Park and rerouting the Purple Line along MD 410 instead of some bizarre route through East Silver Spring. They won't do that becauase they are NIMBY hipocritesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-15449028990608109122007-10-30T17:36:00.000-04:002007-10-30T17:36:00.000-04:00"Smart growth" has become a developer's dream -- m..."Smart growth" has become a developer's dream -- make lots of money increasing congestion and cramming higher and higher density to the detriment of existing residents -- and do it in the name of good planning!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-49413769682058096372007-10-30T10:12:00.000-04:002007-10-30T10:12:00.000-04:00Vancouver, Canada - whose downtown has been fillin...Vancouver, Canada - whose downtown has been filling with residential towers in recent years - has a policy requiring a certain percentage of all new apartments to have at least three bedrooms. The result is that families with kids are moving back downtown. While apartments may not be ideal for all families, there's no reason why those that would like to live in a more urban setting couldn't be accomodated in one.Dan Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-29385265725416501092007-10-30T10:11:00.000-04:002007-10-30T10:11:00.000-04:00Plenty of New Yorkers manage to raise families in ...Plenty of New Yorkers manage to raise families in apartments. You can't complain about sprawl and the destruction of farmlands and forests and at the same time oppose high density housing in urban settings, particularly near transit hubs.<BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to houses with backyards? Idyllic as that may be, the answer is overpopulation. There simply is not enough land to give every family a house with a big back yard, unless you can to develop the entire country into one big suburban bedroom community, in which case our food production and wildlife will be out of luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-91919259341859375772007-10-30T09:21:00.000-04:002007-10-30T09:21:00.000-04:00It appears that the one question that never crops...It appears that the one question that never crops up during disussion of development in or around the Metro and the concept of "Smart Growth"-- is "What about the families"?<BR/><BR/>Condos and apts, are geared toward single or one child families-- what ever happend to houses with back yards.<BR/><BR/>The Purple Line and the ICC will destroy backyards parks and open fields.<BR/><BR/>Smart Growth calls for dense development in or around tansportation hubs-- meanwhile big familes have to move out further.rtsindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732950848044059264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-15545737185611754312007-10-30T07:48:00.000-04:002007-10-30T07:48:00.000-04:00Seems like a spot like that should have _higher_ d...Seems like a spot like that should have _higher_ desity, rather than townhomes. Some moderately priced condos or 4-6 story apartments, maybe even mixed use, would be just right. I suspect the protesters would prefer the cute townhouses, given these alternatives, but you never know.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13601092971406547119noreply@blogger.com