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I totally agree about extending the Georgia Avenue streetcar into Silver Spring and making it possible to continue the Rhode Island Avenue streetcar to College Park. Neither would be useful for MD commuters going into DC - the Red and Green lines will be faster. But they'll make it easier to go from, say Silver Spring to Columbia Heights or College Park to Brookland, which right now requires a transfer. And they'll be great for catalyzing development in places like Brightwood or Hyattsville, which have great bones but could be better-connected to the rest of the region.

This may be outside the purview of the DC streetcar study, but I hope that eventually some kind of connection is studied between the DC system and the Columbia Pike streetcar in Virginia.

Also, not to quibble: it's Columbia Road in Columbia Heights, not Columbia Street.

by dan reed! on Feb 10, 2012 10:15 am • link • report

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