Here in the west and south west many us don't much care what happens in the ever-more-crowded lands of East-Fifteenia. We should.

Having lived for many years in the West and South of DC, in Georgetown, we have seen the folly of bad decisions about Metro.

Some of those decisions were simply mean-spirited and short-sighted. Georgetowners feared that Metro would allow people they didn't like access to places they didn't want to go in the first place.

They forgot that things and people change; that trains run in two directions; and that waiting twenty or forty years to do something that could have been done easily early on, become nightmarishly difficult, expensive, and even unavoidable over time.

Twenty-first century Loudoun is what it is because it is a suburb of the capital of the most powerful country in human history. Not to be able to get there from here on fast, clean, safe and efficient public transportation is silly, short-sighted and sad . . . and not very good for our children.