Busy day in transportation news!
- Four Green Line stations northeast of Ft. Totten reopen w/ revamped platforms, amenities.
- The new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge has a ribbon-cutting at 11.
- Metro posting results of Blue-Orange-Silver Line study. Blue Line in Georgetown?
- Four Green Line stations northeast of Ft. Totten reopen w/ revamped platforms, amenities.
- The new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge has a ribbon-cutting at 11.
- Metro posting results of Blue-Orange-Silver Line study. Blue Line in Georgetown?
Some background on the Blue-Orange-Silver study from when it was launched in 2019: wamu.org/story/19/12/06…
Today also traditionally marks the return of god-awful traffic, but analysts I talked to say it's now a moving target b/c of Delta's surge.
"Whatever we might have been anticipating, (it) will be muted due to a lot of the delays in returning to the office," MWCOG's Tim Canan says
"Whatever we might have been anticipating, (it) will be muted due to a lot of the delays in returning to the office," MWCOG's Tim Canan says
Here's a story from 2018 about the “September shock.”
dcist.com/story/18/08/31…
dcist.com/story/18/08/31…
Looks like we're getting only an update on the Blue-Orange-Silver capacity study. Options range $5-25B cost, 25 year horizon. Choice made in 2022.
Alternatives:
- No build
- Small tweaks
- National Harbor loop
- Silver Line Express
- SL to New Carrollton
- BL to Greenbelt
Alternatives:
- No build
- Small tweaks
- National Harbor loop
- Silver Line Express
- SL to New Carrollton
- BL to Greenbelt
Full presentation: wmata.com/about/board/me…
.@allyschweitzer called this map, an amalgamation of all the public input, the "Hot Mess Express."
(This is just to show the wide range of ideas to fix the issue of too much tunnel traffic in the Rosslyn Tunnel.
(This is just to show the wide range of ideas to fix the issue of too much tunnel traffic in the Rosslyn Tunnel.
Paul Wiedefeld on the chances of any of this getting built: "I think it's realistic. If you start off thinking, 'oh gosh, this is too expensive or we'll never get through the neighborhood and environmental issues,' then you never move, right? But I think these things coalesce...
"...They build up momentum, for lots of reasons. We know that (the Rosslyn Tunnel) is a bottleneck in the system. And either we live with it for the next 50 plus years, or we start to do something about it. I think it's a good process and we'll just let it play out."
More on the study from @allyschweitzer
https://twitter.com/allyschweitzer/status/1435281484189929472
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