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DAVID LUBLIN
Chevy Chase
The writer is a member of the Chevy Chase Town Council.
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Two articles in the July 13 Post illustrated how people in my area are using their creative energies to block needed change.
The Metro article "Transit Plan on Track" provided an update on the District's streetcar project. That article described a streetcar "renaissance" nationally, with the growth in light-rail ridership outpacing the growth in other transit ridership in the first quarter of this year, as worsening traffic and increasing fuel costs increase the need for constructive transportation solutions.
This timely progress contrasts sharply with some actions in my neighborhood. The article "Purple Line Foes Offer No Ideas, and No Names" described the Alliance for Smart Transportation (AST), a new organization ready to offer only broad criticisms of the Purple Line project. AST was founded by a board member of the Columbia Country Club, a 100-year-old Chevy Chase club whose golf course is built around a right of way that has been planned for public transit since 1988. Sadly, AST offers no constructive approach -- only a generic complaint about excessive public spending.
