Re: "The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon

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From: Chris Winters
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:00

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sascha@clark.net (Sascha Segan) wrote:

>The way I hear it, back in '76 when they planned the Metro map, they held
>community hearings on which neighborhoods wanted to have stations. Several
>then-marginal areas (Rosslyn, Dupont Circle) jumped at the chance.
>Georgetown demanded that the Metro be kept *out* of the neighborhood
>because they didn't want those unsavory darker-skinned people taking the
>Orange Line in from Northeast.

Actually, the City Paper did a short piece on this in the last
few months. There never was a station planned for Georgetown --
even in the late 60s when Metro was lines on a map, it wasn't
part of any generally accepted plan. Part of the reason is that
making a turn from Georgetown to Rosslyn -- AND going under the
river -- was too tricky to engineer.

Chris

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From: cwinters@clark.net (Chris Winters)
Subject: Re: "The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon
Date: 1996/07/10
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