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Given the cost and complexity of building out a platform over a working station, Akridge will be lucky to clear a profit on the deal. (Too bad we can't follow the lead of NYC, SF, Hong Kong, Nagoya, etc. and finance the new station largely out of air rights proceeds.)

A few questions that I have, having only skimmed the document:
1. What does the $7B cover?

2. Where does the rail bottleneck move to after this is done? The First Street Tunnel? Switches to the yards in Ivy City? The NEC bridge over the Anacostia?

3. Does the plan assume, or accommodate, future VRE-MARC through-routing? (Is that part of Phase 4's additional through-routed tracks?)

4. I bike past WUS twice daily, on 2nd NE headed north and 1st NE headed south, but I still don't quite understand what's proposed for those two frontages, or how the stacking diagram is going to work. What's going on around those two sides, including the H St concourse entries?

by Payton on Jul 26, 2012 1:33 am • link • report

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