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Slow Boring

The transit projects D.C. needs

Some small projects and an ambitious upgrade to our community rail

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Matthew Yglesias
Sep 21, 2021
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At the end of “WMATA’s plans for Metro Expansion Are Bad,” I promised to follow up with my own suggestions for expansion.

But just to recall, the agency’s goal is to kill two birds with one stone — majorly expanding Metro service while also alleviating the capacity crunch at Rosslyn that was induced by the creation of the Silver Line. My view is that sp…

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