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King Terrapin: I figure by "the area" you meant PG County, because Union Station is similarly situated. I used to make a comparable point about the H Street neighborhood being proximate to the best collection of transportation assets in the region as of 2001, "wondering" why it wasn't seen as a desirable neighborhood.

-Amtrak Northeast Corridor (intercity high-speed rail)
-MARC Penn Line, Camden Line, Brunswick Line (commuter rail)
-Virginia Railway Express
-Intercity bus service (Bolt etc.)
-Metro Red Line (heavy rail)
-I-395 to Virginia/SE-SW Freeway
-Rt.50 to Annapolis
-Baltimore-Washington Parkway
-less than 15 min from National Airport

Won't have light rail access, but it will be proximate to streetcar access.

BUT, in line with BeyondDC's point last year about how another major train station needs to be developed between Union Station and Arlington to take up some of the slack from the commuter railroads (He didn't mention as an example of how the three railroad stations are set up in Philadelphia, once unconnected because they were stations for different railroad companies, they are now connected in terms of the Septa Regional Railroad system), you make a good argument for New Carrollton developing a transit center/railroad station comparable in image and heft to Union Station, the forthcoming Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring, the post-modern Amtrak station for Albany (located in Rensselaer), etc.

- http://www.amtrak40th.com/exhibit-train/stops/albany-rensselaer-ny

Developing a signature "train station" (transit center) there would be a transformative step for Prince George's County.

by Richard Layman on Mar 9, 2012 4:46 pm • link • report