Won’t somebody think of the children!

Consider these two policy positions enacted by the Town of Chevy Chase:

1. Speed limits on the street in front of the town’s elementary school were recently lowered to 15 miles per hour to make the street more safe for students.
2. The town wants to modify the proposed Purple line from a light rail train running in a fenced-off, dedicated right-of-way to a rapid bus running on the surface of Jones Bridge Road, a street some distance north of the town’s boundaries on which a Montgomery County elementary school fronts, and across which children attending school walk daily.

So thanks, Chevy Chase, for making your values clear. Your children should be safe at any cost; ours should be subjected to unnecessarily dangerous conditions so you can have prettier recreation facilities. You’ve got yours; screw the rest of us.

The disconnect is absolutely, inexcusably shameful, and an affront to basic human decency. How dare the town expect the rest of us to consider the safety of our children a lower priority than the aesthetics of the town’s recreation facilities.