Submitted by Cooking_with_MREs t3_10l2r4j in washingtondc
dcmcg t1_j5u9syw wrote
There were massive battles in the 2000s about whether the Silver line should be above ground or below ground. The Bush Admin wanted the elevated line to reduce costs, and threatened to pull funding otherwise.
NOMA and a lot of the Red Line is built on an existing rail ROW so it was never going to be underground. Same for the ends of some of the other lines. WMATA is certainly not "considering" more underground stations in the sense of moving above ground stations to below ground.
PalpitationNo3106 t1_j5us88m wrote
That was really just through Tyson’s corner. Where an underground makes total sense, since the land is so valuable. They were never going underground any farther than that, iirc.
Cooking_with_MREs OP t1_j5uf4bu wrote
Oh yeah, for sure, I meant "considering" in the sense of whether new stations could be build below ground.
veloharris t1_j5v2hba wrote
Money, it comes down to money.
moonbunnychan t1_j5xj78r wrote
The fighting over the silver line delayed the project by years. It was so incredibly frustrating to watch.
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