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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the same reason that Georgetown doesn't have a stop [/quote] 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.[/quote] 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. [/quote]
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