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...Prince George's Councilman Tom Dernoga, a longtime ICC opponent, showed up to give one more speech denouncing what is already a done deal. "This is an anti-working family proposal and an anti-working family road," he told the board.
Actually, there are many working families that make enough money to use the ICC. It just so happens that they tend to live in places other than Dernoga's Prince George's County district.
The fact is that since the ICC was revived in 2003, the plan has never been about transporting the poor or the middle class - except on an occasional emergency basis or by taking a bus. It was conceived as a road for the movers and shakers. It was designed to get the biotech executives of Montgomery County to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport without all those annoying traffic jams on the Capital Beltway or Randolph Road.
ICC was always intended to exclude most people -- baltimoresun.com
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