Metro Cannot Handle the New Residents

The White Flint Sector plan assumes somehow the required public transit will miraculously appear, while in fact providing no plan for that to happen. Here is an article from the Washington Examiner that shows us there is no way transit required to support the plan will happen. with 20,000 new proposed jobs and 12,600 proposed new residential units for the Sector, how will people move around the area? The White flint "plan" kicks the ball into the far future.

Metro is unsafe at any speed
Examiner Editorial September 10, 2009

Despite National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations and General Manager John Catoe's personal pledge after the June 22 Red Line crash that killed nine people and injured 70, Metro is still putting old, unsafe rail cars at the front of some trains. Outrageous as it is, this is what inevitably happens with union-heavy, quasi-statist bureaucracies like Metro: They aren't unresponsive to the public they are supposed to serve because there is no effective accountability to the public.

With billions spent to build and expand Metro, the most important
day-to-day task for the system's managers remains operating and maintaining it
to ensure passenger safety. Despite huge taxpayer subsidies, 10 of the nation's
25 largest transit agencies have had to raise fares (as high as 33 percent in
San Francisco and Boston) to cover looming deficits. But Metro has taken a
slightly different route: It's deferred literally billions of dollars in needed maintenance...