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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Oct 22 15:03:16 2011, in response to Re: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Pictures 10 15 2011, posted by Easy on Sat Oct 22 10:43:55 2011. I think that it's a combination of me being averse to rail and especially rail stations being located in freeway mediansWhich is interesting given that for this phase, all of the Tysons Stations are on local roads, Reston-Wiehle Avenue and Wolf Trap Rd if that's ever opened will be in the median. For the second phase, most of the stations, IIRC, will be in the median, but given the situation, it's certainly better than nothing. There will be attempts at TOD by the local authorities though... suburban, almost rural looking area. It looks more like commuter rail Compared to say, most of Los Angeles County, it's low density, and even compared with Town of Hempstead, it's low density since it isn't a full stream of continuous development, but compared with some other places, it's a "normal crowded" suburb with the exception of the two non-airport stations in Loudon County. Admittedly, the line follows the ROW of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, but that's a rail-trail, so it's far easier to just use the neighbouring highway ROW, but the operations practices are not commuter rail*. FWIW, I suspect that once the line opens, you may see some ridership from DC residents and from some who live in Eastern suburban areas that need to get to work in that area and have workplaces that are within walking distance of the stations. *In the United States, FRA regulations, union rules, and "not invented here" issues prevent applying rapid transit techniques to mainline railways, hence why we end up with half-assed tools like BART, WMATA, MBTA's Braintree Branch, the perpetual calls to extend NYCTA service further into the outerboros, or the LAMCTA Gold Line's perpetual extension to Azusa. |
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