But gardening teaches us that you cannot trim unwanted plants; you must rip them from their roots. The west part of the city is about 30 miles from the economic powerhouse of Washington, D.C. If it had a state of the art "Gold Line" to connect to the D.C. Metro, the property values and economic growth in the area would increase. The design phase of the "Gold Line" would offer residents a real chance to provide feedback for station locations. This alone would help unify high-poverty neighborhoods, where residents have witnessed the economic growth in the city's downtown from a distance, and at the same time, witnessed the continued economic decline immediately around them.