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[quote=Anonymous]I work as an urban planner and I can tell you a lot of this is political. Gtown residents did NOT want metro but also from an engineering standpoint at the time of planning in the 60s it was difficult to make it work in Gtown. Palisades hardly counts as heavily populated either. If communties want metro they need to agree to a massive upzonig of the adjacent properties to make it worth while. Look at NY Avenue, the property owners with land around that stop paid for most of that stop to get built and then built the hell up around it. Thus is it ends up paying for itself. the metro was originally designed to focus on suburbanites coming into the city, thus the "spoke" design. Streetcars will help but they need to be dedicated lanes. I like that people are finally getting fed up with hour long commutes and realizing that less house is better than more commute and moving back into the city![/quote]
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