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any updates on metro?

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by kat, Dec 30, 2004.

  1. kat

    kat New Member

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    Anybody have any updates on the progress with the metro rail coming out this way? Thanks...
     
    kat, Dec 30, 2004
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  2. flynnibus

    flynnibus Well-Known Member Forum Staff

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    metro expansions work on the timeframes of DECADES... so I'd venture any news is FYI at best.

    -Steve
     
    flynnibus, Dec 30, 2004
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    river, Dec 31, 2004
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    If all goes well the first phase to Whiele Ave in Reston will be completed by 2011 at the earliest. Beyond that going to 772 out in Ashburn will be at least 2015 I would imagine. Hard to believe how the original Metro system was ever built!
     
    mdr227, Dec 31, 2004
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  5. kholbert

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    Although I am a big advocate of rail transit, at the pace Metro is proceeding to Loudoun, most of us will be driving hydrogen powered vehicles into DC instead. Others will have found a job closer to home in that new office park off the Greenway that hasn't even been planned yet. You'll get there via the Claiborne extension to Ryan road to avoid the Greedway toll. Some of our kids will have all gone to college and we'll be looking to downsize into a luxury townhome inside the beltway. Others will commute to their home offices or local telework center and work right here in Broadbandlands. Who ever is left will pay $5-10 each way on the Greenbacksway to get to the Dulles Metro Station, and then pay $5-10 bucks Metrofare to DC. That trip into DC will take 75 or more minutes after making the 9 stops planned between Dulles and West Fall Church.
     
    kholbert, Jan 4, 2005
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  6. flynnibus

    flynnibus Well-Known Member Forum Staff

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    The metro was planned to expand to college park while my father was at university.. then when I got to college park.. it finally made it out there. And that wasn't even a section highly contested.. it took a generation to actually go from 'planned and done!' to actually done.

    -Steve
     
    flynnibus, Jan 5, 2005
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  7. snoopy

    snoopy Senior Member

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    But I bought a home near dulles airport counting on metro coming here!! :D keekeee
     
    snoopy, Jan 12, 2005
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  8. Kate

    Kate New Member

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    Belive me, If they ever get a metro out here it will not be for years...

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    Resident since 1992!
     
    Kate, Jan 18, 2005
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    Dr. Gridlock (WashPost) gives it until 2020, "if ever."

    Maybe by the time I'm too old to drive...
     
    pamD, Jan 20, 2005
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  10. snoopy

    snoopy Senior Member

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    Thus the metro will come in very handy ... BRILLIENT !! [:p]:D
     
    snoopy, Jan 21, 2005
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