@@TheEpicDiamondMiner Yes...way cheaper, faster to build and less disruptive to build a Boring system. The Purple line has required roadway expansion, miles of new storm drains and utilities. Streets/shops in Silver Spring have been disupted for years. The bike/hike trail from Bethesda to Silver Spring will be closed for about 10 years total. Several bridges were built. Apartments, homes, schools and businesses lost some of their front yards. A large strip of businesses off 16th st. were torn down for a station. And that's just what I see as a Silver Spring resident. The mess continues quite a way into PG county. In the end the Purple Line will just be another item in our streets congesting our environment. An underground system would be out of sight.
@@Goldsteinphotothe money on the purple line has already been spent. Has it been a shit show? Yes. Are taxis in a tunnel with unbelievably high operating cost and no emergency exits a better option? I don’t think that needs answering. Boring loop is also inaccessible which for a modern transit system is frankly unacceptable. Plus the capacity is way way less like unbelievably less, large items and bicycles can’t be brought on board, it’s significantly slower, it’s unsafe, and you would have to disrupt more life above because the stations are built cut and cover and I don’t even think their station design can bear the weight of a building on top though I may be wrong on that one.
Why don't they simply stop this entire mess and hire The Boring Company to build an underground system?
i495 already exist, sweetie. We don’t need an underground version of it.
@@TheEpicDiamondMiner Do you even know what the Purple Line is SWEETIE?
@@Goldsteinphoto I assumed you were talking about building car lanes, like the Vegas Loop?
@@TheEpicDiamondMiner Yes...way cheaper, faster to build and less disruptive to build a Boring system.
The Purple line has required roadway expansion, miles of new storm drains and utilities. Streets/shops in Silver Spring have been disupted for years. The bike/hike trail from Bethesda to Silver Spring will be closed for about 10 years total. Several bridges were built.
Apartments, homes, schools and businesses lost some of their front yards. A large strip of businesses off 16th st. were torn down for a station.
And that's just what I see as a Silver Spring resident. The mess continues quite a way into PG county.
In the end the Purple Line will just be another item in our streets congesting our environment. An underground system would be out of sight.
@@Goldsteinphotothe money on the purple line has already been spent. Has it been a shit show? Yes. Are taxis in a tunnel with unbelievably high operating cost and no emergency exits a better option? I don’t think that needs answering. Boring loop is also inaccessible which for a modern transit system is frankly unacceptable. Plus the capacity is way way less like unbelievably less, large items and bicycles can’t be brought on board, it’s significantly slower, it’s unsafe, and you would have to disrupt more life above because the stations are built cut and cover and I don’t even think their station design can bear the weight of a building on top though I may be wrong on that one.