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In article <31e31589.1295283@news.clark.net>,
Chris Winters <cwinters@clark.net> wrote:
>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

THis is the subject of some controversy and would make a good
history project for some active college student or HS student
looking at large government projects.

While the City paper and the Post nowadays report that
"Poor georgetown was abandoned due to technical problems,
(Note, no technical problems stood in the way of Forest Glen station,
People who I know and well respect who were here in the 70's,
report that the people of Georgetown fought so Long, Loud and Hard
from the very ebginning against any intrusions, that Georgetown
was deleted from any early planning.

Now, I know the Post will engage in creative writing,  so I'll
take the word of people who were players in DC politics at
that time.

pat


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