It would be absolutely remarkable to see a train system between Columbia and Silver Spring. To be able to potentially ride rail all the way from here down into DC would be incredible.

It would also be huge for the potential linking of Baltimore and DC by a devoted direct rail that would help clear up the road traffic between the cities and possibly help drive interest in further rail development elsewhere.

As nice as a BRT system would be I can’t imagine it surviving massive cuts and lack of public interest to end up as anything more than them adding a few new bus stations and having most of it just use the existing roadways for stretches. Thus, we end up with the great new transit project only adding to and suffering still from traffic.