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Why the hell should the District begin what would no doubt be a ridiculously long process with the federal government to acquire a piece of the RFK lot when they already own a perfectly good piece of land a mere 700 feet down the road?

I swear I'm not being NIMBY, I just want you to put it somewhere else!

Do people even understand how planning works? How could anything ever get done if step 1 in the process was not "plan" but "hey let's have a community meeting and ask people to put little dots on the map where our streetcar barn should go"? The district government did its job, which was create a plan and explain the reasoning to the community (we already own the land, it's along the streetcar route, and we can integrate a training program at the school) and then the got their input at the meeting! What exactly do you envision as "working with the community?"

@mtp
When you are starting a rail system sometimes you have to start with a railyard in the middle of the system. See Brentwood rail yard - it was nearly 10 years before another yard was built at Shady Grove. And the car barn will not be a "terminus," the tracks into the barn will split off in the middle of the section of track that has been built - there is still another 900 feet of track to the east.

by MLD on Jun 28, 2012 3:58 pm • link • report