"charding"
Well, in my opinion, Arlington County is batting 0 for 2 on correct public transportation decisions for Columbia Pike. For those of us who have been around awhile, take a look at the Metro map - ever wonder why there was such a wide gap between the Orange and Blue lines? Well, the initial planning concept in the 1960s/70s was that there would be a line down Columbia Pike. In fact, if one looks closely out the right side windows of outgoing Blue/Yellow line trains, you can catch a glimpse of the Columbia Pike turnout that was built. Why was the line not built? Citizens rose up in resistance to it and that it would be too disrupted, and that line was cancelled - take a look at the Orange Line thru Clarenden how different today the Clarenden corridor is from the Columbia Pike corridor. Well, Arlington County has done it again for the Columbia Pike corridor…and now you can understand why Fairfax County is so upset…no strategic vision…oh well.
Why are you trying to revise history? You are using the same myth that has been used to explain why there is no station in Georgetown.
The Columbia Pike - Lincolnia Metrorail route was
never proposed as part of the
Adopted Regional System. Like the Silver line it was shown on the Adopted Regional System map as
future. And also like the Silver line, provision were built to more easily build those future routes (Column piles and junction provision along the Orange line for the Silver line, junction provision in the south end of the Pentagon Station for the Columbia Pike - Lincolnia route).
John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore.