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oxtailplanning t1_itxmkbu wrote

Reply to comment by DeepSeaDweller in Metro studying Silver Line Express service by walkallover1991

Zachary Schrag's book on Metro was really eye opening and made you appreciate so many of the decisions we live with today. Answers questions like: Why didn't the entrances have canopies, what station did locals get wiped off the map (not Georgetown), why didn't Tysons originally get a line, and so many more. Great book, fascinating read.

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DeepSeaDweller t1_itxo1tv wrote

You're the second person to bring it to my attention on here in less than 24 hours, sounds like I might have to look into it. Anything in there about the disaster that is only having three trunk lines running through the city?

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oxtailplanning t1_itxoplt wrote

Yep. A WHOLE lot about that. Like a lot a lot. Let's just say it was a fight to even get the green line built.

This book makes you appreciate statehood even more with all the ways congress held DC hostage. It will also make you mourn the loss of Kennedy even more, the only true presidential friend of the Metro.

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