Why isn't there a Metro Stop at Taylor's Run?
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Anonymous
| Never heard of Taylor Run and am born and raised in NoVA. |
Anonymous
OP, it's a mile. High school kids need to walk 1.5 if they are in that perimeter of the high school. You can deal. Plus a vast majority of the city is well more than 1 mile from a metro. See: the entire west end. |
Anonymous
It is a small SF neighborhood between King, Janneys and Duke. Next to Clover/College Park. |
Anonymous
My thought is they needed to put a very large parking garage at the King St metro. If there were parking, people who live there would drive and park at the metro station and take metro. I hate, hate, hate the magical thinking of "people will use public transportation to get to public transportation despite that adding anywhere from a half hour to an hour to their commute!" There is no evidence that people in this area are going to abandon their cars even to go 1 mile. |
Anonymous
| 1 mile in suburbia is nothing. I live in Capitol Hill and have a mile walk to the metro. |
Anonymous
No. The King/Callahan/Russell intersection is bad enough as is. There is nothing difficult about the 15-20 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from Taylor Run. Talk about privileged. |
Anonymous
| That's still a long walk to the metro even if it is a mile. How come they cant put a station there? |
Anonymous
Uh, where on Capitol Hill is the walk to metro 1 mile? Nowhere. |
Anonymous
Up by Ivy City |
Anonymous
Getting more people to drive down that way would be insane. Either walk to metro, take a bus, ride a bike. If you live too far to walk to King Street metro, consider a different metro station. |
Anonymous
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Where would you even put a metro station to serve Taylor Run. Look at a map. West of King Street, the metro runs along a rail line south of Duke Street. If you can't walk to King Street Station, you aren't likely to walk across Duke.
Are you suggesting a brand new metro line to serve your little neighborhood of Single family houses? Time to invoke Poe's Law. I know some annoying people in Taylor Run, but none so crazy as to suggest this. |
Anonymous
Look at a map. The existing metro line does not run through Taylor Run. IF a new station were built on the existing line (at a cost north of $200 million) it would still be too bad a walk to attract many people from Taylor Run. I presume you are not suggesting a new rail line. I am guessing this is trolling aimed at the planned PY infill station. Very inelegant trolling, IMO. |
Anonymous
Above Florida Ave or south of New York Ave? That's two neighborhoods away from Capitol Hill. Ivy City is walking distance to both NOMA and Rhode Island metro stations and is closer to Brentwood. Even if you are technically in Gallaudet, it's still 2 neighborhoods from the Hill. |
Anonymous
| An infill station at Dunn Loring makes more sense than this. |
Anonymous
You realize...there's already a station at Dunn Loring, right? 
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