Anonymous wrote:I was alive (barely) when Metrorail opened with a very short Red Line. It's been extended over the years but I don't think I'll live long enough to see it extended again.

Like all American public transit, Metrorail is in a precarious situation with collapsing ridership numbers and a society where the future of work doesn't seem to include a lot of regular commuters.

Because it should be moving people around the city not in and out of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll never understand why they didn’t make the red line do straight up the Connecticut Ave corridor and make another going up Wisconsin Ave.

They should've kept the streetcars.

Yes, they should have kept the street cars.

PP, price out how much the Metro cost. Talk to people, including business owners, about what it was like when they were ripping up the streets for years to build the tunnels. Maybe you’ll have a better understanding. Also, remember when the Metro was actually planned. What would be the advantage of the Connecticut Ave corridor? Would that have been an advantage in the 1960’s and early 70’s? Keep in mind, too, how many people were adamantly against having the Metro anywhere near their neighborhoods, and that the Metro wasn’t intended to replace the bus system which is much more flexible and much less expensive.

Anonymous wrote:I was alive (barely) when Metrorail opened with a very short Red Line. It's been extended over the years but I don't think I'll live long enough to see it extended again.

Like all American public transit, Metrorail is in a precarious situation with collapsing ridership numbers and a society where the future of work doesn't seem to include a lot of regular commuters.

Bingo. WFH will eliminate the “work at an office building in the city” mentality that mass transit requires in order to survive. It just needed a catalyst to get started, and the pandemic was it. There’s no going back.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll never understand why they didn’t make the red line do straight up the Connecticut Ave corridor and make another going up Wisconsin Ave.

They should've kept the streetcars.

I was alive (barely) when Metrorail opened with a very short Red Line. It's been extended over the years but I don't think I'll live long enough to see it extended again.

Like all American public transit, Metrorail is in a precarious situation with collapsing ridership numbers and a society where the future of work doesn't seem to include a lot of regular commuters.

I’ll never understand why they didn’t make the red line do straight up the Connecticut Ave corridor and make another going up Wisconsin Ave.

I think there was talk about maybe building a monorail from Shady Grove to Frederick? Think a gondola across the Potomac is more likely...

So you buy far outside the metro reach then want them to build more for you? Even if they did it would be 10-20 years or more.

It would be better to first build out Metro inside the beltway, as opposed to stretching it ever farther out to the exurbs. Metro is meant to be an urban subway, not a subsidized ride for budget commuters all the way from WV or PA. That's what MARC is for.

Would require eminent domain so years of legal battles before construction could begin ?