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Posted by Sand Box John on Fri Apr 10 22:41:48 2015, in response to Re: WMATA Observations, posted by italianstallion on Mon Mar 30 16:13:22 2015. I specifically wondered about the death of D.P Circle. It's way under the street and the vehicular tunnel. And those escalators open to the elements are ridiculous.I have the construction drawings of the station. several of reasons: The National Park Service did'nt like the idea of tearing up Dupont Circle to construct a shallower cut and cover station. The cost of tearing up and restoring Dupont Circle would have cost more then what was built. The top of the bedrock is roughly 5' below the invert of the streetcars and Connecticut Avenue underpass. The top of the gallery the station is built in is roughly 35' below the top of the bedrock. Also, why isn't there a station between Dupont and Woodley? It's a heckuva long stretch in a very urban part of town. A stop at, say, Kalorama Road would serve the bustling Adams-Morgan area, the Washington Hilton, etc. Again I have the construction drawings of that section: The alignment follows several compound curves to remain under the Connecticut Avenue right of way. The station would have had to have been built above the Lydecker Aqueduct along a roughly 750' long tangent on a 0.035 grade. The underground easement at both end would have been outside of the Connecticut Avenue right of way and would have been roughly 20' deeper then the Dupont Circle station. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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