Comments on: Reviewing The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington metro http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1882 Rob Goodspeed's blog Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John S. Niles, Seattle http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1882/comment-page-1#comment-613846 John S. Niles, Seattle Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:53:19 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1882#comment-613846 I heard in a presentation about two years ago from a WMATA planner that future expansion of the Metro system will be with bus lines. Perhaps this could be verified in the present day at http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/planning_dev.cfm I heard in a presentation about two years ago from a WMATA planner that future expansion of the Metro system will be with bus lines.

Perhaps this could be verified in the present day at http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/planning_dev.cfm

]]> By: Thelonious_Nick http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1882/comment-page-1#comment-5768 Thelonious_Nick Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:41:50 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1882#comment-5768 “(As a whole, the bus system, which serves many more passengers, is almost wholly ignored – but this is not a book about buses, after all.)”

Actually, Metrorail carried 190 million trips in 2004 (roughly 520,000 daily), Metrobus 146 million (roughly 400,000) daily. (see http://www.wmata.com/about/metrofacts.pdf)

This pattern is the reverse of most cities and I think reflects how much of an afterthought the bus system really is in the DC area.

]]> By: schrag.info » Blog Archive » Goodspeed on The Great Society Subway http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1882/comment-page-1#comment-5700 schrag.info » Blog Archive » Goodspeed on The Great Society Subway Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:05:40 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1882#comment-5700 [...] Rob Goodspeed has reviewed The Great Society Subway twice: on DCist and on his own blog, The Goodspeed Update. [...] [...] Rob Goodspeed has reviewed The Great Society Subway twice: on DCist and on his own blog, The Goodspeed Update. [...]

]]> By: Becky http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1882/comment-page-1#comment-5691 Becky Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:10:42 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1882#comment-5691 As a former Georgetown/Glover Park dweller how can you be satisfied with the reach of the Metro! As lovely as the Metro is (and it IS lovely), you should come to Chicago and check out the El. It goes a ton more places and runs 24 hours. Of course it's about 100x dirtier than the Metro, so I guess there's a tradeoff. As a former Georgetown/Glover Park dweller how can you be satisfied with the reach of the Metro!

As lovely as the Metro is (and it IS lovely), you should come to Chicago and check out the El. It goes a ton more places and runs 24 hours. Of course it’s about 100x dirtier than the Metro, so I guess there’s a tradeoff.

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