Potomac Metro Stop

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[Post New]09/12/2023 20:09
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Anonymous
Why didn't Metro build a station in Potomac???
[Post New]09/12/2023 20:14
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Anonymous
Where would you put it? It seems out of the way.
[Post New]09/12/2023 21:45
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Anonymous
We already have a Potomac metro stop.
[Post New]09/12/2023 21:47
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Anonymous
OP, where pray tell would they put a metro stop in Potomac that wouldn't offend the people in the neighborhood.
[Post New]09/13/2023 09:15
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Anonymous
What routing would have made sense when Metro was being built?
[Post New]09/13/2023 09:31
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Anonymous
Because the people in Potomac didn't want it.
[Post New]09/13/2023 09:32
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Anonymous
For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop
[Post New]09/13/2023 09:44
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop


Namely: the Metro planners in the early 1960s never planned for there to be one, because the purpose of Metro was to transport office workers from their homes to to their jobs downtown.
[Post New]09/13/2023 10:02
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop


Well no not really.

There is a Metro line that runs just south of Georgetown so in the case of Georgetown it was at least an option. There is no Metro line anywhere close to Potomac, MD - the Red Line is maybe 10 miles away?

In any case while it is true that there was some opposition to a Metro stop in Georgetown it also didn't make a lot of sense at the time as Georgetown just wasn't much of a destination in the mid 1960's when Metro was being planned and the geology is also really tough there for a station so for a couple of reasons the planners didn't really spend much time considering it.
[Post New]09/13/2023 10:06
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop


Well no not really.

There is a Metro line that runs just south of Georgetown so in the case of Georgetown it was at least an option. There is no Metro line anywhere close to Potomac, MD - the Red Line is maybe 10 miles away?

In any case while it is true that there was some opposition to a Metro stop in Georgetown it also didn't make a lot of sense at the time as Georgetown just wasn't much of a destination in the mid 1960's when Metro was being planned and the geology is also really tough there for a station so for a couple of reasons the planners didn't really spend much time considering it.


It depends on how you define Potomac. From Churchill H.S. to White Flint/North Bethesda Metro, it's about 3.0 miles in a straight line.
[Post New]09/13/2023 10:57
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop


We don't have a Potomac stop because the angle and depth tunneling under the Potomac would have required would have created a grade too steep for trains to get up?

Weird, I don't really see that being an issue in Potomac.
[Post New]09/14/2023 14:22
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop


Well no not really.

There is a Metro line that runs just south of Georgetown so in the case of Georgetown it was at least an option. There is no Metro line anywhere close to Potomac, MD - the Red Line is maybe 10 miles away?

In any case while it is true that there was some opposition to a Metro stop in Georgetown it also didn't make a lot of sense at the time as Georgetown just wasn't much of a destination in the mid 1960's when Metro was being planned and the geology is also really tough there for a station so for a couple of reasons the planners didn't really spend much time considering it.


The engineering studies that were done to plan Metro showed Georgetown sat on soils that would be extremely expensive to tunnel through and shore up. There was a big cost/benefit part to the decision not to extend to Georgetown.
[Post New]09/15/2023 07:32
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Anonymous
Same reason Olney doesn’t have one: deemed too far flung and the locals didn’t want the riff raff.

[Post New]09/15/2023 08:18
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Same reason Olney doesn’t have one: deemed too far flung and the locals didn’t want the riff raff.



It's not hard to imagine how Olney could have a Metro station. Metro could continue north along Georgia Avenue, aboveground in the median, from Glenmont. I don't know if the Metro planners thought of this, though. Olney is way, way out. Also then downtown Olney would have consisted mostly of parking lots. Although actually downtown Olney consists mostly of parking lots even without a Metro station, so maybe there wouldn't be a big difference?

It's very hard to imagine how Potomac could have a Metro station.
[Post New]09/15/2023 10:48
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Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Same reason Olney doesn’t have one: deemed too far flung and the locals didn’t want the riff raff.



It's not hard to imagine how Olney could have a Metro station. Metro could continue north along Georgia Avenue, aboveground in the median, from Glenmont. I don't know if the Metro planners thought of this, though. Olney is way, way out. Also then downtown Olney would have consisted mostly of parking lots. Although actually downtown Olney consists mostly of parking lots even without a Metro station, so maybe there wouldn't be a big difference?

It's very hard to imagine how Potomac could have a Metro station.


I doubt Olney will ever get a Metro station but geographically it would at least make sense as you could extend the Red Line from Glenmont in a rational straight line along an existing corridor that has a lot of people and traffic - not arguing for that but geographically it could make sense.

Potomac on the other hand isn't aligned with any Metro lines and a new line out there would not serve any areas dense enough to justify a Metro line.
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