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I understand what you are trying to say but at least get your facts right homey. Metro Center to Gaithersburg is 27 miles. The East Village to City Island is 18 miles at best. Metro Center to Vienna is a better comparison.
Silver Line opens in 2013 which will go clear to Loudon County. That is like 38 miles from DC and the area will have Metro frequency. The last train will pull to the end of the Silver Line I estimate at around 4:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Will do wonders for the Tyson's Corner/Reston/Dulles/Loudon Corridor.
Your letting municiple boundries get in the way...Lets say one wants to take the Red Line home after a night of drinking from Metro Center to Gaithersburg, that is a distance of 20 miles, and about as far as the Metro extends out. They can get home no problem.
Now, lets say a New Yorker, who is out drinking in the East Village, needs to get back to Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, they can take the 6 train that runs 24/7 back home, that is also a distance of 20 miles, but yet they would never leave the limits of NYC.
Getting out to Jamaica or Far Rockaway (both in NYC city limits) is about the same distance as Metro Center to Gaithersburg (or anywhere on the Orange Line).
No, Gaithersburg is 20 miles from the DC line. Metro Center is downtown which is much farther than 20 miles from Gaithersburg. Gaithersburg is about to get Lightrail (Corridor Cities Transitway) anyway so that should help that area even more with the option to get out of their cars.
Silver Line opens in 2013 which will go clear to Loudon County. That is like 38 miles from DC and the area will have Metro frequency. The last train will pull to the end of the Silver Line I estimate at around 4:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Will do wonders for the Tyson's Corner/Reston/Dulles/Loudon Corridor.
So would this be helpful is you live at say Wiehle and Baron Cameron?
I don't know. They are doing a ton of construction around future Silver Line stops right now. Almost every single stop has tons of high rises under construction. I just checked the location Barton Cameron. The Silver Line will be around Reston Town Center and the Northern Virginia Community College at Wiehle Ave. The parking lots are all being developed into highrises.
I don't know. They are doing a ton of construction around future Silver Line stops right now. Almost every single stop has tons of high rises under construction. I don't know much about the area you are speaking of but if it's near a station, it should be great for those people.
It is relatively close but probably a bit far to walk.
FWIW I think all the TOD is great in DC (NOVA and the MD side) but just because the rail goes there are many folks that cant benefit.
The best use of the Silver line though is not the ability to get drunks home in the wee hours it is to link and provide better transit (mostly commuting options) the silver line would take what close to 50 or so minutes to get out to Loudon/Sterling?
It is relatively close but probably a bit far to walk.
FWIW I think all the TOD is great in DC (NOVA and the MD side) but just because the rail goes there are many folks that cant benefit.
The best use of the Silver line though is not the ability to get drunks home in the wee hours it is to link and provide better transit (mostly commuting options) the silver line would take what close to 50 or so minutes to get out to Loudon/Sterling?
No, the Silver Line will be at Wiehle Ave. where Northern Virginia Community College is and Reston Town Center. Those are the area's seeing the New urbanism villages under construction. Barton won't be that close to the station so they would have to drive to it. The Silver Line is only being built to Urbanize Tyson's Corner and to get Rail to Dulles. It is way overdue too. Now all three airports will have rail connections.
The city proper of NYC is great. But the suburbs don't have that option. If people in the suburbs want to come into New York and drink and have a good time, they can't take the train home. The last commuter trains leave around 1:30 a.m. People have to find other extremly expensive means of transportation or they do what we are trying to avoid and drive. It's a very serious problem and should really be tackled around the country. Washington DC is the only city that provides rail transit into the suburbs late into the night after 3:00 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and I think a push for all systems to start doing it would be a great cause.
I think providing late night trains to at least 3:00 a.m.out of NYC if not later into the suburbs where most people in the region live would do a great deal for regional transit in New York. Drinking and driving is serious and I have many friends who have been effected by it. Nothing to play around with. I know many people think they are ok to drive but you can never be to careful. We have all been in a situation where we know we should say something to a friend. Hopefully you did.
Depends on the suburb. The suburb of NYC I grew up in had several trains in the middle of the night. There's a 4 am & 1:40 train on weekends , and on weekdays the train runs every 1.5 hours or so. It was 36 miles away from the city center. I dunno how DC could compare well with NYC since DC doesn't even have commuter trains that run past commute hours, so only those in the inner suburbs with metro access can take a late night train.
Depends on the suburb. The suburb of NYC I grew up in had several trains in the middle of the night. There's a 4 am & 1:40 train on weekends , and on weekdays the train runs every 1.5 hours or so. It was 36 miles away from the city center. I dunno how DC could compare well with NYC since DC doesn't even have commuter trains that run past commute hours, so only those in the inner suburbs with metro access can take a late night train.
That is true. People in the exurbs don't have access to the train late night. Marc and VRE definitely suck for places 40-50 miles away from DC. I don't know if there is enough demand to run VRE and Marc with frequency that high though. DC doesn't have 20 million people for commuter rail way out to the exurbs.
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