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D.C. is building a 23 mile silver metro line to Tyson's Corner done in 2013 and to Dulles Airport by 2016. D.C. is also building a 37 mile streetcar network with 8 lines intersecting metro. 2 lines will open in 2012. DC is also about to build a purple light rail line that will connect 4 northern legs of metro with construction slated to start in 2013/2014.
You should be investing more in Streetcars , Regional Rail and Light Rail , these Metrorail lines aren't good for 23 miles. That should have been a Regional Railway....would have been less expensive and faster and cheaper...
You should be investing more in Streetcars , Regional Rail and Light Rail , these Metrorail lines aren't good for 23 miles. That should have been a Regional Railway....would have been less expensive and faster and cheaper...
The decision to extend metro was made to urbanize Tysons Corner into a walkable downtown where you can live without a car. The other reason was to connect Dulles Airport to metro. I think you need to understand something. Metro is way cheaper to ride than commuter rail. Metro is way faster than commuter rail also. With 11 stops on commuter rail, it would take way longer for people to board the train than Metro. Metro can move at 80 mph and is way faster than other heavy rail systems such as NYC or CHI. You need to look at circumstances before you decide what people build. People don't take commuter rail in downtowns to travel within a city.
You should be investing more in Streetcars , Regional Rail and Light Rail , these Metrorail lines aren't good for 23 miles. That should have been a Regional Railway....would have been less expensive and faster and cheaper...
commuter rail is usually less expensive to build and faster to build where there is an existing rail line. There simply arent that many existing rail lines in greater DC, as this was not historically as dense or as industrial as other areas. Where greater DC DOES have existing rail line - the old O&A to Manassas - the RF&P - the penn and B&O lines to brunswick and baltimore - it DOES have commuter rail lines.
In the Tysons-Reston-Dulles corridor there is no alternative to building from scratch, which is necessarily more expensive. And can only be justified by the high volumes of conventional heavy rail mass transit, not by commuter rail.
Yea, perhaps the biggest reason they chose metro rail was so that it could exist with an existing and already popular rail system. And the fact that it was designed for commuting not to dowtown to DC but to various suburban centers lowers the speed advantage of commuter rail
Out of those, I know that recently, SunRail got approved by the FL governor.
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