A few weeks ago, my friends and I went to a festival at Linganore Winecellars, a winery in Mount Airy, Maryland.

Thousands of people came out to enjoy wine and Caribbean music, and all of them arrived by car, covering the winery’s non-productive fields with parking. The result looks like something the Coalition for Smarter Growth would use for an anti-sprawl campaign.

The lower right image shows the line to get out. You wonder if the commute to work is like this for people who live out here. (This is the flipside to the cozy urbanity of downtown Frederick.)

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Dan Reed (they/them) is Greater Greater Washington’s regional policy director, focused on housing and land use policy in Maryland and Northern Virginia. For a decade prior, Dan was a transportation planner working with communities all over North America to make their streets safer, enjoyable, and equitable. Their writing has appeared in publications including Washingtonian, CityLab, and Shelterforce, as well as Just Up The Pike, a neighborhood blog founded in 2006. Dan lives in Silver Spring with Drizzy, the goodest boy ever.