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@Jasper: I completely agree; a new crossing should have been in the planning stages starting about 10/15 years ago. Now we need to find a group of competent elected officials from Arlington, Fairfax, Montgomery, and Pr. George's counites, the District, and Alexandria, Falls Church, Rockville cities, etc... to work together to start planning for a new Metrorail crossing to allow for more capacity in the core.

I could say something snarky about what I wrote above about leaders working together but hope the people in the region can make the process start since such a crossing is probably 15+ years away.

"Finally, I see no push from anyone to solve the tunnel-problem between Foggy-Bottom and Rosslyn. In a matter of year, this tunnel will carry the maximum of trains and cars it can, while the number of passengers will keep increasing.

They need to address that. There are basically two options, one expensive, one very expensive.

* Expensive: Make a inter-VA switch in Rosslyn, so Orange and Silver Lines can go to the Pentagon and beyond.
* Very expensive: An extra tunnel and separation of the Blue from the Orange and Silver Lines, with a new Blue Line along M St.

Seeing how long it takes to get anything done around here, they should have been working on this for at least decade now."

by Transport. on Jun 11, 2012 5:35 pm • link • report