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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turning the Lord and Taylor into a WMATA bus garage is nuts.  Makes me question the credibility of the entire plan.  [/quote]

The busses have to go somewhere and they need to be repaired/maintained. It's the end of the line for a lot of busses and connects to the Metro.

What they should be doing is building a bus garage and having some sort of mixed use 8 stories high above the garage - shopping, indoor playland, a big gym, etc. A stand-alone bus garage is dumb. Maximize use of air rights. [/quote]

Have you ever smelled the exhaust from a bus garage?[/quote]

Wmata already purchase the Lord and Taylor site.  The diesel bus garage on Wisconsin will relocate one block away from Wisconsin to the L&T, and will be for electric buses.  This is a win for everyone.  Free up the space on Wisconsin, directly above a metro entrance, freeing it up for development on the main commercial corridor, and replace diesel with electric.  Of course some NIMBYs that will be next to the new bus garage instead of a block away from it are pissed, even though it will be electric, but it makes perfect sense to all other rational humans.

The problem is Wmata has no money…follow their news, there is a “fiscal cliff”, less riders post COVID. I doubt they will get money to move the bus garage in the next 10 years.  Maybe if they partner with a developer to put housing / retail on top of the new garage they can make it happen.  But some of the neighbors will stop it from happening.  And we’ll still be stuck with the diesel bus garage on our Main Street.  Ya….l despise the neighborhood NIMBYs.  I live here and it’s shocking to me how short sighted and selfish people are.  [/quote]

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