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Comment by Alex B.

If Metro is going to start adding more services to existing tracks, then it's probably time to abandon the color-only based naming system.

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Comment by jim

My fear on this sort of setup is that the two lines which serve Arlington Cemetery would have too great a headway at rush hour. We're likely talking about 10 or 12 minute headways on the Blue and...

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Comment by Noah Kazis

In Boston, all the lines are referred to by color. But the Green Line splits into the B, C, D and E lines and the Red Line splits into the Braintree and Ashmont branches. Tourists can handle it just...

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Comment by tom veil

Metro could do something like the Kick Map (http://www.kickmap.com/comparison/), where each line gets a band of similar colors.

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Comment by Daniel M. Laenker

But then tourists from New York wouldn't be able to complain that Metro schematics are "too Fisher-Price", tom. You'd take away an age-old pastime! This said, I think the cheapest short-term fix to...

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Comment by tom veil

Daniel: Oh, wow, that is brilliant. I'd almost forgotten about the proposed "baseball train" switches. Yes, please do share a map!

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Comment by jim

A cheaper (?) alternative to the separated Yellow line, which has something in common with Daniel's proposal, would be to build another Potomac crossing between the Pentagon (there's a switch and a...

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Comment by Kk

If where going to be wasting money with the yellow line crap why not add new stations along the way. Perhaps building a new junctions could fix some of the problems1 Building one at L'Enfant Plaza so...

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Comment by coneyraven

Since we're living in a fantasy world ... with a real world twist ...ultimately, I'd love to see both the realigned Blue Line (Through Georgetown and eastward as envisioned in an earlier map, plus, a...

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Comment by Matthew

We manage just fine with same-number bus routes that have different termini (some rush hour 42 busses from Mt. Pleasant go all the way to Metro Center, and others terminate at Farragut). It would also...

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Comment by bob previdi

David While it seems logical to promote better use of the existing capacity of the Arlington section of the Blue Line and the Potomac River Bridge, I would suggest that the "9th St." subway be pushed...

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