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In article <4rgdld$edt@news3.digex.net>, rex@access.digex.net wrote:

> ltost@ltost01.erols.com (L. Tost) wrote:
> 
> >What about a Georgetown stop?  I've often wondered why there wasn't one.  
> >Maybe it would help cut down on the the 5 million cars on M and Wisconsin ;)
> 
> When the trians stop running before midnight.  I doubt many bar
> patrons would consider this an acceptable option.

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.

So now we have massive development along the Orange Line corridor in
Virginia, the Red Line corridor on Conn Ave keeps traffic flowing
(sometimes) through now-ultra-trendy Dupont, and Georgetown looks like an
ad for Rollerblades (tm) thanks to the bumper-to-bumper traffic.

S.

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