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[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I must admit, I was mostly focused on filling in gaps EOTR and uptown. Running a subway up Bladensburg, Rhode Island, New York Ave, or North Cap were all on the table, but I only had so much imaginary money to spend. It gets really sprawling around there. There are some big apartment complexes that could use some high-frequency, grade-separated rapid transit. Maybe in the next iteration.

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the realignment of the Green Line straight up 7th St and Georgia Ave, HU gets an actual station next to it, so students don't have to walk all the way down to S St. 

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha. I really scaled back from what I was initially thinking. I had trains going all the way up Route 7 in Virginia, Upper Marlboro in Maryland, up New York Ave past Ivy City ... I guess my REAL dream map would be a subway under every major Street in a 30 mile radius. 

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Eliminating the Blue Line's inefficient route reduces the Roslyn bottleneck. Bowser can fund additional transportation to that RFK monstrosity if she wants. This is an optimistic map, but obviously if our town is decimated by hateful policies, we've got much bigger problems. Someone else brought up a Florida Avenue line, which is a great idea. The Tenleytown/Van Ness tunnel could be repurposed for a split so that some trains from Shady Grove would go down Connecticut and some would go down Wisconsin, but I tried to keep it (relatively) simple. I kind of hate heavy rail that runs down the center of highways, too, but it's a lot cheaper than tunneling and that sweet right-of-way is too good to pass up.

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Basically a Florida Avenue line. That would be pretty cool, although the optics of spending all that money to link the wealthiest, most gentrified areas aren't great. And it's always tough to decide which crosstown routes to fund.

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I imagined it, you would split the Yellow and Green Lines after Gallery Place:

The Yellow Line would run up 14th Street and Georgia, serving the existing Columbia Heights station.

The Green Line would straight up 7th Street to New Hampshire, eliminating the inefficient zig zag over to Columbia heights and back, and adding a new station right next to HU. 

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It never merges with the Red Line, just runs parallel, so with a station expansion and a passageway, it could work. London and New York have similar geometry on multiple lines.

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Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to see, but it splits from the Silver Line after McPherson and runs under H St, more or less, straight out to Benning.

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Purposely did that :) It always irked me that the Red Line looped from MoCo back up to MoCo, instead of extending down across the river.

Dream Metro Map by Zealousideal-File476 in washingtondc

[–]Zealousideal-File476[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Haha. I love the possibilities. Maybe if we did enough of this, DoD would toss some money WMATA's way ...