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NBC reported earlier this week, that WMATA is again studying what can be done to relieve the train congestion in the tunnel between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom. NBC floats the possibility that the solution could ultimately lead to one or even two new Metro stops in Georgetown. Although GGW poured a little cold water on the possibility that the study would ultimately support such an ambitious plan, GM thought it would be a good time to revisit why it is that congestion on the Orange and Blue lines could help justify the Georgetown stations. Here is an article he published in 2013 after another Metro study supported the more ambitious plan:

As GM has written multiple times in the past, WMATA’s long term planners have contemplated bringing the Metro to Georgetown in the distant future. While the future is still distant, the planners nonetheless took an important step recently and endorsed a Metrorail expansion that would create two stations in Georgetown.

The exact details remain somewhat fuzzy, but as you can see above from the map accompanying the announcement, the planners call for a new tunnel under the Potomac and a new subway line heading underneath M St. and onward to Union Station. This part of the plan is very similar to most ideas the planners have floated in the past. But what the train would do after Union Station is dramatically different in this plan than in the earlier ones.

Rather than branch out through H St. and of eastward, the line would head south towards the Capitol, and then curl back through SW DC towards the Pentagon. It would in effect create a loop line, similar to other loop lines around the world. Continue reading →

Photo by M R.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Jack Evans is asking for a chance to explain himself.
• It’s always a good time for tiki drinks. And Farmers Fishers and Bakers has always had one of the best tiki drinks in the city.

Potomac River

ANC 2E will be meeting for its July meeting next Monday, July 1st. Since there’s no August meeting, this will be the last meeting until September. As such, this meeting tends to be one of the longer ones.

There are not blockbuster topics on the agenda, but a couple might spark your interests:

• The future of Jelleff Field
• The future of 5G wireless towers in Georgetown
• The effort by the BID to bring more predictability to the Old Georgetown Board proceedings
• A new accessory dwelling unit application

Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Big changes planned for the Marriott on the other side of Key Bridge.
• Jack Evans is not excited about a news reporter approaching him on the street.

3200 block of M St.

Friday morning at 6 am, federal agents pounded on the door of Councilmember Jack Evans. They were there with a warrant to search his house. Agents from the FBI spent the next three hours going in and out of his house with boxes of evidence. The entire block was closed off, and Evans spent the entire affair seated in a car across the street. It was surely the lowest political point he’s experienced in his 28 years as Ward 2 Councilmember.

The search appears to have been in response to the revelations of an ethics investigation conducted by WMATA. The law firm investigating on behalf of the ethics committee identified several ethical violations by Evans while serving as chairman of WMATA. After falsely stating earlier last week that he was “cleared” by the committee, Evans admitted that in fact he wasn’t and then resigned from the board. Then the FBI showed up Friday morning.

It is too early to tell what is going to happen for Evans. The DC Council, which has taken a relatively cautious approach so far, stripped him of his coveted chairmanship of the finance committee and announced the formation of an ad hoc committee to investigate him. Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• If you’ve been under a rock: the FBI raided Jack Evans’ house on Friday.
• FYI: there are outlets and free Wifi on the back patio of the library, if you’re looking for nice place to work.

Tudor Place

A highly regarded deli that specializes in bagels is opening its second location in Georgetown. The deli, called Call Your Mother, has maintained a location in Park View for a little under a year, but it is already quite popular. Calling itself a Jew-ish deli, it pulls on the traditions of northern cities delis, but with a twist.

The deli will be opened in 3428 O St., which is the location of the soon to close Greenworks flower shop. Call Your Mother’s owner, Andrew Dana, told Eater that he was attracted to the pink building. So maybe the garish paint job will stay (much to the consternation of a lot of people, GM estimates). Continue reading →