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fireshighway t1_itv8d5f wrote

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

That would have required additional planning and foresight from an agency that does neither of those things well.

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22304_selling t1_itv9c4x wrote

MWAA, not WAMTA, is building the Silver Line...

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fireshighway t1_itvp1hw wrote

That's cool! Who will be managing the trains and tracks once it's done?

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22304_selling t1_itvpvz1 wrote

Not the agency that built the line.

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fireshighway t1_itvq8yf wrote

So people just build things for WMATA and they have to use them with no say in the process?

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22304_selling t1_itvsbz4 wrote

It's probably fair to assume that from the time that the Federal Government was building the airport and the access road in the 1960s, and reserved the median of the access road for future mass transit use, that everyone had a fairly good idea about what travel times out there would be.

You're talking about a right-of-way wide enough for two tracks, for a system that has only operated two-track lines. And as noted, skip-stop service doesn't really save that much time, and is probably not worth the operational hassle.

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