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Michael Malak wrote:
> 
> "Gecko" <gecko@radix.net> wrote in message news:3BD36896.EB1A49D@radix.net...
> > William wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18340-2001Oct18.html

> > Maybe it's not visible on the map, but it looks like there's
> > no easy connection from the western leg of the Red Line to
> > the Blue Line going to Georgetown.  You'd have to go many
> > stops out of your way on the Red Line (all the way to Union
> > Station) if you're trying to get from Bethesda to
> > Georgetown, no?
> 
> Or walk the one block to transfer from Farragut North (which has
> an L St. exit) to a possible Rhode Island Ave. station.

If they have any sense, they'll connect the pocket track north
of Farragut North to a pocket track in the NEW Farragut North
station. (I am assuming that once the two existing Farragut 
stations are connected they'll be called "Farragut Square".)

This would allow them to cost effectively build a fare-free
pedestrian connection from the Blue Line to the Red and Orange 
under Connecticut and 17th Streets NW. The miracle of travelators
makes this eminently useful.

(one of the reasons the Metro Center--Gallery Place link would
not work, is not only do stopgap proposals like these rack up
the same amount of expense as a full disentanglement of the 
Blue and Orange lines, but it probably wouldn't be a straight
tunnel, and so travelators couldn't be used.)

-BER