What do you think one of the factors that allowed rapid growth of NOVA was? NOVA has nearly doubled since the 90s.

The other problem is it’s dumb alignment followed by non existent transit oriented development

The alternative is remaining in car purgatory.

May I remind you we were a larger city than DC only until recently, and they have a massive metro system.

Hm. Tell that to literally every small European city with extensive tram networks and a third of the metro population as us.

Some confusions I am noticing on this thread:

This has nothing to do with undergrads and students (like masters students) paying to go to JHU. This is about PhD students, who basically are research employees of the university, doing a lot of labor, publishing papers, and bringing in all of the university’s grant money. PhD students take classes for 1-2 years then are just research employees who happen to get a degree at the end. It takes like 5-7+ years for this. Hopkins pays PhD students a small stipend to live on, <$34k. The administration increased the stipend by 2% in an 8+% inflation year and seemingly does not care or listen to graduate workers needs. They have also had issues continuously giving out late payments/missing payments for years. The unionization efforts is to fix this.