well-that-was-fast t1_ir627q1 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 4:30 PM

Reply to comment by cfitzpancake in Train to Ashburn! by albinotuba

Exactly this.

There is no way you can run trains on 4-minute headways out to suburban parking lots -- which is what most of the system is outside of DC.

sagarnola89 t1_ir6g6e7 wrote on October 5, 2022 at 5:59 PM

Agree wholeheartedly except I'd amend this to say outside of the Beltway. Stations outside of DC but within DC (Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, Silver Spring, College Park , etc) usually aren't on suburban parking lots.

well-that-was-fast t1_ir6gzra wrote on October 5, 2022 at 6:05 PM

I agree there are few non-parking lot stations outside of DC, but this:

> outside of the Beltway.

is pretty generous. Alexandria Eisenhower looks like this and King St isn't vastly better.

sagarnola89 t1_ir6hx8d wrote on October 5, 2022 at 6:11 PM

That's fair. Alexandria is especially bad. Better examples would be Arlington, Bethesda, and Silver Spring, all of which have walkable urban cores around their metro stations.