Just last week I was writing how the possibility of a Metro station finally coming to Georgetown was still inching (millimetering?) forward.
And of course that news drew the predictable clucking from people who believe deeply in the folk myth that Georgetowners block Metro from coming here in the first place. (They didn’t). While it’s one thing for internet commenters or others to spout this false story, it is quite another thing when the Washington Post publishes a letter doing the same. That is what you see above, where DC native John Schelp (who now resides in North Carolina) confidently asserted the myth and the Post decided to run it without any disclaimer.
What’s especially frustrating is that in the online version, the Post links to an article definitively debunking the myth. Why is the Post publishing a letter based on a lie that it knows to be untrue?
I do commend you to read that linked article by the way. It is by Emma O’Neill-Dietel at WETA and it is quite good.
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
Not to mention that it makes no sense for the Red Line to go from Tenleytown to Georgetown. That would cut off Woodley & Cleveland Park (and therefore the Zoo.) Perhaps a better question is why didn’t the Metro continue up Connecticut Ave through Chevy Chase?