A Metro Station In Georgetown? It Could Finally Happen [View all]

That Georgetown doesn't have a Metro station has always been the source of a longstanding urban myth. The residents of the tony Northwest neighborhood rejected a station when Metro was first built, goes the myth, because they feared it would allow the city's riff-raff to bring their troublemaking ways to the peaceful area.

Not only is that false — it was largely the neighborhood's geography and location that knocked it out of contention — but Georgetown may eventually get a Metro station after all.

Today Metro unveiled a preliminary map of a new rail network (see below) it could build for the busiest part of the system's core by 2040. The network would be formed by a new loop of the Yellow and Blue Lines in downtown D.C. with between eight and 10 new stations, including a much-vaunted one in Georgetown. It would also feature a second crossing of the Potomac River to Rosslyn.

As part of the expansion, Virginia would also get a third Metro line. .............................(more)

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