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Dan,

It's not so much that we have a higher tolerance for traffic. After all, no one like having someone else's commuters on a six lane road in your backyard every day. It's more that people saw that Silver Spring (and Bethesda) were developed/redeveloped in a walkable manner and traffic really didn't increase. Another big kicker is that a lot of people who go to Silver Spring use the Metro. Finally, one thing that Wheaton has is plenty of empty garages. There is actually too much parking currently.

The final factor, in my opinion, is that people are now seeing Metro stations as centers. The success across the region of having Metro stations as centers of (walkable) activity has gone from being a novel idea to being something closer to an expectation.

by Cavan on Oct 13, 2008 8:05 pm • link • report

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