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Old 11-10-2009, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Not true. Period. How long have you lived here?

What times are you using the train? That makes quite a difference.
Gotta agree with Leighland that it depends on which direction you are going in the morning and evening. I transfer from the blue line to the orange line at Rossyln in the evenings and head to Vienna. It is always jammed with standing room only. Seats tend to open up around East/West Falls Church for most people standing. I've tried transferring to the orange line at Foggy Bottom before in the hopes of catching a seat before Rossyln, but its still standing room only. This is anywhere from 4pm to later than 8 pm. Occasionally I have got on the Foggy Bottom Orange Line as late as 10:30 pm and still had to stand.

The moral of the story is that even our mass transit systems are stretched to capacity in some areas and need expansions before they can become a truly viable and semi-convenient alternative to the freeway system.
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Old 11-10-2009, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Downtown LA
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Whoops, I misread your post. I read that your husband gets on at Metro Center in the AM not PM. Totally my fault. I'm sure the normal commute is much worse than my reverse commute.

Please excuse my post!
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Old 11-10-2009, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Gotta agree with Leighland that it depends on which direction you are going in the morning and evening. I transfer from the blue line to the orange line at Rossyln in the evenings and head to Vienna. It is always jammed with standing room only. Seats tend to open up around East/West Falls Church for most people standing. I've tried transferring to the orange line at Foggy Bottom before in the hopes of catching a seat before Rossyln, but its still standing room only. This is anywhere from 4pm to later than 8 pm. Occasionally I have got on the Foggy Bottom Orange Line as late as 10:30 pm and still had to stand.

The moral of the story is that even our mass transit systems are stretched to capacity in some areas and need expansions before they can become a truly viable and semi-convenient alternative to the freeway system.
I have yet to ride the Orange Line from DC into VA even once where I wasn't standing. It boggles my mind that traffic can be so congested on Leesburg Pike (Route 7), I-66, AND the Orange Line, but still the people of Loudoun County are squawking about how the Silver Line is going to be a "boondoggle." With thousands and thousands more people moving here do these Loudoun County residents just think things are going to "magically" get better?
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Old 11-11-2009, 09:50 AM
 
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I have yet to ride the Orange Line from DC into VA even once where I wasn't standing. It boggles my mind that traffic can be so congested on Leesburg Pike (Route 7), I-66, AND the Orange Line, but still the people of Loudoun County are squawking about how the Silver Line is going to be a "boondoggle." With thousands and thousands more people moving here do these Loudoun County residents just think things are going to "magically" get better?
For that matter, imagine what 66 would look like if we shut down the Orange line. Ouch.

For any transportation solution to make much of a difference along Route 7/Dulles Toll Road, it has to be able to provide volume. A single six car train can handle 900 people. We'd need 18 50-seat buses to handle the same volume.

People within close proximity to the future silver line should be happy -- proximity to rail is desirable and drives up property values. Bus stops? Nobody asks or cares about them.
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