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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How valuable is walking to the MARC in Kensington?  If you work at Union Station it is awesome.  But if you have to get on metro, especially more than one line or far up the red line, I'm not sure it's that great an option.  At that point, you can drive more quickly to most spots since Kensington isn't that far out.  Plus the rigid MARC schedule is a major negative to people without pure 9-5 type jobs.  (If you have to connect, you need lots of lead time going home, or if you miss it, it is half hour between trains.).  You also have no benefit on the weekend.

I'm sure I adds some value, but it strikes me as a lot less valuable than metro.[/quote]

There's no doubt it's less valuable than Metro, but is does matter. With the development in NoMA, Southwest Waterfront and around Union Station in the past several years there are a lot of jobs in the area. NoMA and Southwest Waterfront are both within a 30 minute walk from MARC. If you work anywhere within walking / biking distance of Union Station it's a much more pleasurable experience to take the MARC. You're virtually guaranteed a seat, can eat/drink and there are bathrooms. Also, with the advent of bike share and Uber Pool / Lyft Line it's a lot easier than it used to be to circumvent Metro.

Being walkable to a grocery store, post office, banks, restaurants, etc. is also not going to change if there's a change in school districts. There are not many places in the area with a park system as extensive, or as nice, as Kensington's (specifically east of Connecticut Ave).

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Very few people are going to be willing to walk 30 minutes each during their commute, especially when that doesn't even factor in the time to the train, waiting for the train, and on the train.

People might walk from MARC to a job in NOMA, but probably not SWW.[/quote]

There are plenty of people who bike after MARC. If you don't want to walk or bike it's 20 min from Kensington to Union Station and after that it's probably a 20 minute train ride to anywhere downtown (Metro Center is only 2 stops from there, and Red Line trains run every 4 minutes during rush hour). There are plenty of people who would kill for that commute.[/quote]

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