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Posted by Scrabbleship on Thu Jul 1 11:23:13 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Thu Jul 1 10:28:45 2010. No one at the time envisioned or considered the transformation of the District from a sleepy, company town to a major destination city at the center of a major metropolitan area.I think many people couldn't have visioned this even 20 years ago, back when Gallery Place was seedy, Columbia Heights was a ghetto, U Street was an open-air drug market, etc. etc. Now look at the development in those areas and even areas not near Metro (Bloomingdale/Eckington, H Street NE, etc.). If the economy ever recovers, add Navy Yard to that list outside of baseball games. So Metro ended up as a two-track system with no means of handling more trains to accommodate the dramatically higher ridership. Outside of NYC, Philly's BSS, and part of the Red Line in Chicago, every system is two-tracks. If systems built a lot earlier, under much cheaper labour laws, had only two tracks, what would've made Metro to have wanted more? Proof that Metro is bursting at the seams: A rider revolt took place in 1999 when ATO was shut down for repairs for over a year. At that point, the all-time mark crossed 600,000 a day. Today, 600,000 is a mark that would be seen on a VERY bad weekday even after the post-crash declines and lower gas prices. |
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