DeepSeaDweller t1_itwdlaz wrote on October 26, 2022 at 8:03 PM

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

This should be at the top of the thread.

oxtailplanning t1_itxmkbu wrote on October 27, 2022 at 1:22 AM

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.

DeepSeaDweller t1_itxo1tv wrote on October 27, 2022 at 1:33 AM

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?

oxtailplanning t1_itxoplt wrote on October 27, 2022 at 1:38 AM

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.