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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was shocked to see this from Frumin yesterday.  I am a supporter of his but this is a terrible idea.  One of his opponents in the election, Goulet who is now on the school board, basically ran on this idea and was defeated and criticized for it as presenting, among other things, a bad real estate deal.  Now Frumin is promoting it? And suggesting we scuttle MacArthur school barely a month after its seemingly successful and good-start opening?  Way to abandon MacArthur at a time it need support.  This location is much too close to J-R to be viable as another HS without undermining J-R itself.  And a complete distraction from pressing priorities.  I hope he can find a way to detract this.[/quote]

We’d rather see Matt Frumin spend his time to get school bus service from Ward 3 neighborhoods rezoned to MacArthur.  It’s impractical to get to and from school by Metro bus now.[/quote]

WMATA has proposed to add a new bus that would connect many of the in-boundary neighborhoods and two Metro stations to MacArthur HS. Guess who wrote a letter to WMATA asking them not to create the new line? Matt Frumin.[/quote]

Do you have a link? What was the rationale? Does he have a financial interest in moving the HS? 
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There's no conspiracy theory here.

The facts are that WMATA proposed removing the current D2 line that connects Glover Park to Dupont and replacing it with a line that would serve the new high school.  Rather than crossing to Dupont via uncontested P street, the new line would eventually wend its way downtown via gridlocked M street.  The bus line would add ~20 minutes to any trip downtown from Glover Park.  Whether this is a good idea is a judgement.

Understandably, people in Glover Park were not happy about this plan.  Frumin's letter reiterated these concerns and asked WMATA to add a bus route rather than taking one (and a bunch of other stuff).
https://mattfruminward3.com/draftvisionarynetwork/[/quote]

Indeed. There was no conspiracy, but plenty of misinformation and the ol' fashioned beggar-thy-neighbor that no neighborhood in DC does better than Glover Park.

The D2 route for the most part duplicates the D6 and is an inefficient use of WMATA resources. Glover Parkers could still get to Dupont by connecting on Reservoir Rd. The new D6 would run more frequently so connection times might actually increase. But Glover Parkers are above transfers and demand their own special shuttle.

M St is indeed a sh*tshow, but calling P Street "uncontested" is absurd. Traffic crawls along there at rush hour. The new bus, in addition to connecting many in-boundary neighborhoods to the high school, would restore the connection to Foggy Bottom and Georgetown that has been missing since the D5 was cut.

Frumin new what he was doing with the letter. WMATA does not have enough money to add bus lines to Ward 3 without cutting another and explicitly refuses to run school buses. Pushing back against their proposals was as good as asking them to can it.[/quote]

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