Jason

39 minutes ago, johnny said:

even if i work out, don’t need to shower every day. 

Like seriously just lol, this is what greets you getting off the VRE there. Just upzone the walkshed of the VRE and run the trains more often.

The mall you're talking about is a bog-standard suburban sea-of-parking mall. The hospital could run a shuttle from the VRE station the way a bunch of companies run shuttles from the Pentagon if the VRE service were beefed up, it's a ten minute drive from the VRE station according to Google Maps. But absolutely nothing here justifies a Metrorail station, even if it's less bad than it used to be.

Like, let's get WMATA to a point where it can handle what it already has before we started throwing tons of new service requirements at it. 

4 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

If we're gonna extend metrorail, have them start doing land speculation and watch the money roll in but no one wants to talk about that

I mean even more fundamentally than that I don't understand why people are so eager to extend Metrorail while both WMATA management and their primary union are just unmitigated dumpster fires. 

9 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

The development around that area is nowhere near dense enough for a metro stop unless there are plans for low/no car development that I'm not aware of. It's entire design is single family homes, separation of uses, and auto dependency.

 

Transit stops/lines should serve more than one purpose. There needs to be significant housing and jobs and entertainment (aka make it city like, not suburban) otherwise it's a waste of money, which unless there's something planning I don't know about this would be.

Even if you could get the densities up it'd probably still make more sense to turn VRE and MARC into RER-like services than to extend Metrorail out that far. 

3 hours ago, Anathema- said:

The proposed blue line expansion would connect people to the walkable areas of the town. It's not just extending it to Quantico it's looping out from the Woodbridge train station out to the mall and Stonebridge plaza (where the area hospital is). We have busses. More would be nice but it's not the same. Nobody's taking their family to the mall on a bus. 

 

Also there has been a lot of multi family homes built. A huge set of apartments just got built within walking distance of the station.

 

Maybe ask someone who lives here. 

You do remember that I used to live in DC, right (as does Gordon Chaffin)? Running Metro out to a suburban mall is dumb. Running Metro out into these areas without any commitment to having TOD around the new stations is dumb. Beefing up VRE service and allowing TOD around the VRE stations just makes way more sense overall.

And even if this somehow was actually a good idea in principle, we're talking about fucking WMATA, the most dysfunctional major transit organization in the country.

3 hours ago, Anathema- said:

That's not even to mention the traffic reduction it would cause as fewer people will have to travel to Springfield to get on the metro for events like sports and concerts. Expanded VRE and intracity busses ain't gonna do that. 

First WMATA would need to actually boost service for Nationals games. But this is also not a good example because VRE already has connections to Metro at L'Enfant and Union Station, but most of the trains are only in the peak rush hour direction, and there's no midday or weekend service. Why spend billions duplicating what already exists when you could just run more trains on what already exists?

13 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Plus metro service, not suburban VRE, should be focused in the metro core not out in Quantico or further

lol this is some real smooth brained shit, Quantico already has a VRE station, beefing up VRE service is the painfully obvious correct choice here and Quantico is way too fucking far away to be on Metrorail regardless. 

3 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

can’t keep doge down

don't jinx it

1 minute ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Employers have the option of making vaccinations mandatory -- if they can demonstrate that they are a bona fide job requirement (i.e. as a health and safety requirement) as long as they make reasonable accommodations for disabilities/religious reasons.  The challenge is that small organizations and people who work for themselves are unlikely to face this challenge.

Aren't there numerous US states that have already passed laws banning mandatory covid vaccination?

The military makes you get vaccinated for everything under the sun and the only reason they haven't mandated the COVID vaccines yet is the EUA issue. Lots of hospitals that require an annual flu shot that will also require a COVID vaccine once they're fully approved. Colleges already require a whole list of vaccinations and many aren't even waiting for full authorization to start requiring a COVID shot. Etc etc etc.

1 minute ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Mandatory vaccination needs to become a thing.  I recognize that won't happen for adults in the US.  I think vaccine passports are an inevitability going forward for the rest of the western world.

There are lots of jobs that require various vaccinations which have only not made it mandatory since the COVID vaccines are available on an EUA. So a good chunk of the adult population be forced into getting vaxxed once the vaccines have reached a full approval.

19 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

In the US, 24% of the population is under 18 so we won't get anywhere near there until kids can get vaccinated

You'd think the percentage of kids that get vaxxed is going to basically track the percentage in the adult population since the parents need to be involved to get vaxxed. I guess some kids old enough to drive/otherwise allowed to go around by themselves by their parents might do it secretly if their parents say no, but on the whole...

2 hours ago, CayceG said:

That happened exactly when it was meant to. 

I mean yeah I don't know why anyone is still fucking around with Robinhood at this point.

Thanks Obama! 

On 5/6/2021 at 10:04 AM, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

California gonna run out of people to clean toilets and work at Whataburger

And we're exporting our housing crisis around the country.

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On 5/5/2021 at 4:09 PM, Ominous said:

I mean I like my 3 kids and all but I could have nicer things without them I guess?

Can you still RMA them?