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New Metro Station Names!
With a new 19-character limit on Metrorail station names, a few of the existing ones will be changed. (Makes it easier to post about stations on Twitter, at least.) Some get shorter, some get longer. Per the Metro board's latest meeting:
Navy Yard becomes Navy Yard-Ballpark.
King Street becomes King St-Old Town.
Waterfront-SEU will drop SEU, because the [...]
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7th and F Street, NW. © 2011 Matt Dunn
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Gallery Place / Chinatown Metro. © 2011 Matt Dunn
Drivers Would Rather Take Public Transit, Except In D.C.
WTOP reports the results of a new poll of 500 Beltway residents who commute to work by car, and discovered that half said they'd switch if public transit were merely available to them (and took about the same time as driving)—while six in 10 said they'd ditch the gas-guzzler if a public transit commute were [...]
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The Proposed Metro Station Names Are Here
The time has come to consider new Metrorail station names! On Thursday the WMATA board will decide what names to change and what to keep (hopefully minus a lunch of pheasant under glass). In a typically detailed post, Greater Greater Washington explains the options and allows readers to vote on their favorites:
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