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Originally Posted by cambron J
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. . . connecting National Harbor to Huntington with an underwater terminal would be a waste of money anyways . . .
The segment of the Blue line loop between National Harbor and Huntington proposed by WMATA would make use of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge as the left shoulder of the inside roadways are designed accommodate future rail transit.
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I meant to say tunnel as opposed to terminal in my last post, my fault! Anyways, I don’t really see the feasibility of looping the entire Blue line, especially considering that there isn’t designated termini for layovers and rest for the train engineers. I’d prefer to Blue line to be similar to the Red line or the Yonge line in Toronto: a U-shaped line with two termino as bookends as opposed to creating a circle line.
The only cities with a loop is Chicago’s El, Detroit’s people mover, and Philadelphia’s subway-surface trolleys, and even so, Chicago has a 7 X 5 city block loop as opposed to Moscow, Beijing, and Glasgow, which has a unique city loop much bigger than Chicago’s. Plus the loop serves as a terminus for many of Chicago’s El lines while the proposal to loop DC’s blue line doesn’t.
Once again, I’d like to see the Blue line follow the Red line and WMATA create another U-shape line in the DC Metro. Besides, I don’t know too many people from SW and SE DC that would utilize such a line to Alexandria, especially since the main use of the Metro is to get to downtown DC and even to Tysons and Arlington, which serves as the area’s CBD, not to Alexandria.
I won’t go as far as saying the circle line is a bad idea, but it’s not too wise considering that there’s no termini for rest and for turnovers. Plus having termini gives commuters time to reach for the train and not rush to catch a train since the train will be waiting an average of 10 minutes if termini are built as opposed to creating a circle. The availability of seats in a terminal is another reason why having a terminal is much better.
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