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I mean there was already a Blue Line and back then they could have just started on the Green line.

I'm assuming you are unaware that the Green Line was tied up in litigation for years. When I moved to DC the first time in 1989, U Street NW was a nightmare of construction that crippled businesses in the corridor for years, because the southeast end of the Green Line was the subject of a drawn-out legal battle over where the terminal should be (Branch Avenue or Rosecroft Raceway?) and a judge had embargoed all work on the Green Line until the controversy was resolved.

That being the case, getting the Yellow Line finished and giving people from DC a shorter route to National Airport, as well as other Arlington and Alexandria destinations, wasn't a bad thing to do.

by TimK on Jun 20, 2012 11:47 am • link • report

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