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Re:How Washington DC Got Its Metro by bregma on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:39AM (#37687702)
The potential station in Georgetown was skipped for geotechnical reasons. The original town was sited on an enormous and very hard rock above the river and surrounding swamps and that made blasting the huge station cavern prohibitively expensive. The running tunnels are already extra deep there to run under the Potomac.
Re:How Washington DC Got Its Metro by snowwrestler on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:29AM (#37688655)
The Rosslyn station is directly across from Georgetown in the same geologic unit.
Re:How Washington DC Got Its Metro by midoridensha on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:11PM (#37698122)
There's already plans for a new line that will have a station in Georgetown.