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The proposal also included an express line along I-66 between East Falls Church and Rosslyn. Really, it's actually two “lassos,” where some trains from the Orange and Silver branches run around the loop and head back west, while some other trains from the Yellow and Blue branches run around it and go back south. That December, WMATA wrapped up a multi-year study on this issue with a recommendation to build a “loop line” between Rosslyn, Union Station, and Pentagon.
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Matt wrote the “stuffed full” series in January of 2013.
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Matt also thought about possible service patterns with a wye or even three wyes, though these aren't under consideration any more. That's why another idea is to separate out the Yellow Line from the Green. One line which can't run as frequently as the Red Line isn't ideal. The areas around Waterfront and Navy Yard stations, and U Street to Petworth, are some of DC's fastest-growing, not to mention the baseball stadium. This limits Green Line service and means longer waits for people from Shaw to Greenbelt in the north and Waterfront to Branch Avenue in the south. The Yellow Line shares tracks with the Blue Line down south, but then combines with Green in DC. Rosslyn also isn't the only choke point, and the Blue Line isn't the only one that shares two separate track segments. That's why a second Rosslyn station is really just a precursor to some kind of new tunnel under the Potomac to Georgetown and then over to Union Station. And unfortunately, that'll likely require a one-block walk. Metro beyond 2025: The Blue Line to Georgetownīuilding a second Rosslyn station will help untangle the trains and allow more service on Northern Virginia's outer line segments, but if the train just stops at Rosslyn, any riders going to DC will then need to transfer to a Silver or Orange train. WMATA ultimately picked the second Rosslyn station option. Matt looked at the two immediate solutions being considered: a “wye” so that trains from Ballston could turn south toward Arlington Cemetery, and a second Rosslyn station.
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That turned out to create crowding problems and long waits on the Blue Line, and Metro ended Rush Plus in 2017. He showed how Metro was trying to alleviate the pressure with a change called “Rush Plus,” which meant fewer Blue Line trains and more Orange and Yellow trains. Matt illustrated the challenges with the Orange, Silver, and Blue merge with some clever maps that depict Metro service “filling up” empty lines, like pipes. Here's a summary of the issues and ideas. This was a problem even before the Silver Line opened, and Matt Johnson wrote all about it in a few series of posts in 2013, along with some amazing graphics. A station on any of the three lines west/south of Rosslyn might see only one-third to two-thirds the service of the combined part. Now that Metro has the Silver Line, there's even more competition for space in the Rosslyn to Stadium-Armory tunnel. Thus, one Blue Line train takes away space from both Yellow and Orange. In particular, the Blue Line combines with the Yellow Line in Alexandria and south Arlington, then switches to share tracks with the Orange Line. Places like the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor and south Arlington/Alexandria are big job centers in their own right (not to mention Tysons), and branched levels of service aren't necessarily right.
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That means stations in the branched area will see about half as much service as in the core. They all stem from a fundamental inefficiency in Metro's initial design: Lines share tracks in the core and branch out to the edges. No new Rosslyn station or Metro loop is around the corner (curve?), but it's interesting that officials are talking about them once more. Most of the attention (rightly so) around Metro has gone to its safety, maintenance, and funding woes.
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We haven't heard much about these ideas for a few years. A regional task force recommended five long-term transportation initiatives, including a Metro loop in Arlington and central DC. WMATA will ask Northern Virginia to study adding a second station for the Blue Line at Rosslyn.