Thank you Bob. Ordinary people can't coordinate or come together to form groups. Matching T-shirts have never been made by every day people. They're way too unintelligent for that. Are you just hoping that people who are silly enough to listen to your logic can be easily persuaded?

Also doesn't this article say that there are now "No Metro Tax" bumper stickers? Doesn't this invalidate your argument that the people who are against the Metro are too busy trying to pay taxes to come together? I think it's much more likely that you are thinking up excuses for why the polls don't agree with you. Over 80% of Loudoun County supports the rail.

SUMMARY ARTICLE ON WHY LOUDOUN COUNTY SHOULD NOT FINANCE ANY PART OF THE METRORAIL EXTENSION by Randal O’Toole and Gabriel Roth Advocates of spending $2.8 billion extending Metrorail beyond Dulles Airport argue that the project will improve travel in the Loudoun County area and that this increased mobility will stimulate economic development and raise land values. Neither of these is likely to be true. Rail transit is slow, partly because every train must stop at every station. For far less money, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA or Metro) could provide express bus services that are much faster. For example, the train from Wiehle Avenue to the Pentagon is expected to take 57 minutes, while an express bus could do the trip in less than 30 minutes. Much of the cost of the extension would be paid by tripling tolls on the Dulles Toll Road. This will reduce travel on the Dulles Toll Road by 25 million trips a year, some five million of them by Loudoun residents. That’s more than the number of trips the rail line is expected to produce out of the county, so the line will actually reduce Loudoun County mobility. Extending Metrorail into Loudoun County would also force the county to join the interstate compact that requires all counties served by Metrorail to share in its annual losses. This obligation will impose a substantial burden on county taxpayers. The claim that the rail extension will boost the county’s economic development and property values is also dubious. This claim is based on the visible changes that can often take place next to rail stations. What is less visible is why those changes take place and what they would mean for the county as a whole.

Even to the extent that rail transit does have an effect on economic development, this effect is, at best, a zero-sum game. In other words, rail transit will not lead the county to grow faster; it will just shuffle that growth around. An analysis of the effect of rail transit on urban growth prepared by planners Robert Cervero, of the University of California, and Samuel Seskin, of Parsons Brinckerhoff, concluded that “urban rail transit investments rarely ‘create’ new growth.” Instead, they merely “redistribute growth that would have taken place without the investment.” The biggest beneficiaries of that reshuffling of growth, Cervero and Seskin added, were downtown areas. Rather than lead to growth in Loudoun County, it is possible that the rail line will actually draw growth away from Loudoun County to Tysons Corner or downtown Washington. In sum, extending Metrorail to Loudoun County could be disastrous for both mobility and economic growth. At the very least, Loudoun County should not support the rail line unless two conditions are met. First, no financing for the rail line should come from increased tolls on the Dulles Toll Road and second, the county’s liability to support WMATA’s financial losses should be limited.