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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Thu Jul 1 11:52:06 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Forest Glen on Thu Jul 1 10:43:34 2010. That is like adding another deck chair on the QE II. Light rail focused on downtown and sections on the east side of town does nothing to relieve the current situation on the west side. We need new service options that provide relief for overcrowding on the Red and Orange lines. In town, that could take the form of new LR service in dedicated ROW where necessary from downtown to areas people use the western Red Line to reach, such as up 16th and over Mass Av and P Street to Georgetown, Glover Park and AU.In rush hour, there is a huge volume of transfers between the 42, G2, D6, D2, 3x, Nx and the Red Line at Dupont...even though all except the D2 continue closer to downtown (or through it). Friendship Heights and Van Ness have similarly significant transfer volume. LR routes from Western Av or the AU area along Mass to, say, Union Station and another one from Friendship Heights down Wisconsin to P or M as well as the K Street corridor. These have the potential to take thousands of local daily riders off the Red Line. (One of the estimates used at a Metrobus improvement meeting for the D1/2/3/6 routes back in 2007 was the equivalent of 2 full 8-car trains used them to transfer at Dupont during peak...the G2, 37 and Nx were another 2-3 trains.) For the Orange line, LR from Falls Church along Lee Hwy and over the Key Bridge into an M Street or and/or Whitehurst/K Street routing. |
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