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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They want an 8000 car parking complex AND a metro stop (that they won’t pay for). Nope. I’m in favor of the stadium but with only the amount of parking that we have at the Nationals stadium (around 1800 I believe). It would be an absolute crime to hog up that land with parking garages for that sit empty except for 8 days/year. [/quote]
Why would they need a new Metro stop? There’s one there already.[/quote]

Federal handout for WMATA. Congress will be asked to fund it, they will fund 80%, and the localities will be forced to pick up the remainder. [/quote]

That doesn’t answer the question as to why a new Metro stop is needed. It isn’t.[/quote]
+1 This was my question and I still don’t understand why you would need one and where it would go. The new stadium isn’t much bigger (10,000 seats?) than RFK, it looks to be situated in the same part of the site, and the one Metro station was always sufficient even for sold out games there - I went to a lot of them. Do they want one halfway between Potomac Avenue and Stadium-Armory, at the entrance to the DC Jail? Or north further into Kingman Park?[/quote]

I believe a metro stop was proposed years ago for Kingman Park at the corner of Oklahoma and Benning, but the neighborhood opposed. If there, it could meet the bus/streetcar commuters that come down H St/NOMA. I used to live in KP so really wished there was one there, would be nice for the neighborhood if they did add one. Honestly wouldn't even be that hard, they just need to adjust the tunnel slightly under the parking lot/fields, not like they would have to navigate it around existing housing.[/quote]

Man I bet I know exactly the type of “neighbors” who opposed this. [/quote]

?? this would have been quite a long time ago. Like before I was born.[/quote]
Not necessarily. The NOMA Metro station is fairly new.[/quote]

The Kingman Park metro station was proposed (and vetoed by the KP Civic Association) in the 1970s.[/quote]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman_Park#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201970s%2C%20the,to%20complete%20the%20Inner%20Loop.

"In the early 1970s, the Washington Metro proposed allowing the planned Orange/Blue Line to come above-ground after it left the proposed Stadium–Armory Station. In addition to the Stadium-Armory stop south of RFK Stadium, Metro also proposed an "Oklahoma Avenue Station" with a large parking lot north of RFK on Oklahoma Avenue NE. Residents on Oklahoma Avenue NE and members of the Kingman Park Civic Association bitterly opposed the parking lot, fearing heavy traffic and streets clogged with non-residents parking illegally in front of their homes. The Civic Association demanded that the station be placed underground, a request Metro opposed because it would cost $40 million.[37] Residents also demanded that Metro cancel the parking lot. Residents began heavily lobbying District and federal officials against the parking lot, and in 1977, Metro finally canceled all plans for an Oklahoma Avenue Station—marking the only time citizen groups in the District of Columbia were able to get an entire station scrapped."
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