BART and DC's Metro were built around the same time and share the same pattern of the distance between stations being much closer in the city and the densely populated suburbs, such as Arlington, than further out. Arlington's planning BTW has become a model for other cities with relatively new subway systems. That is, high rise development has been placed on top of the subway corridors with building heights tapering off as you get further away from the system.
Not all escalators are the really long ones, just a few of them. But, unfortunately, as you probably know, Friendship Heights has the long ones. There is a group of elevators on Wisconsin (north side of the street I think, across the street from the bus terminal, in a spot where there are no escalators). That might be a solution -- and I've never found them to be out of service, although I'm only there once or twice a year probably. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of PGage Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Way OT: California Question On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Pollak, Melissa F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, the subway stops are relatively close together, especially when > compared with those of other relatively new systems. For example, you > can't tell me that there's not a lot of space between the Universal > Studios and Hollywood stops in LA. Here, in most cases, they're > probably a mile apart, sometimes a lot less. Also, unlike LA, there > are always people out on the street walking (more like New York). > Last Sunday, I had to leave my place at 6:30 in the morning to catch a > bus to New York, and even though it was dark, there was traffic and > even another pedestrian or two and I felt perfectly safe. That > wouldn't have been the case in most other metropolitan areas. Well, to be fair you can't really refer to Los Angeles as having a mass transit rail system. What they have now is a first feeble step, but nothing substantial. Comparing to LA is setting the bar very low. I think a better comparison for the DC Metro is BART in the Bay Area. In the central city area the stations are pretty close together (you can pretty easily walk from station to station if need be) while in the outer suburban areas the stations are further apart. And both central city areas have much more of a pedestrian culture and orientation than Los Angeles, where walking is what one does between your car and the mall. The main difference we have noticed between the DC and BART systems is how appalling deep the Metro stations seem to have been built. My wife is literally fearful of taking those long, long escalator rides deep into the bowels underneath DC, at least twice as deep as the BART stations in SF. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
