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That’s It For D Series Changes
Last week GM detailed some changes to the D Series bus schedule. One thing that confused him was that WMATA had been contemplating changes for the D Series for quite some time. Yet the changes announced last week appeared to be part of a systemic not targeted change. The website for the D Series study is now essentially wiped of all mention of the D Series Study.
GM reached out to WMATA and got confirmation that the changes announced last week are indeed the end result of this year’s study. Following his inquiry a press release was issued clarifying the matter.
This is a little odd since the changes announced last week only partially resemble the changes considered last winter. Here’s how the two plans break-down:
The Original Plan:
- Extend the D2 to Union Station (this was pulled from consideration last March)
- Cut the D6 up into two pieces, with every third westbound D6 ending at Dupont
- Extend the D4 all the way from Ivy City to Sibley
- Small rerouting fixes
The Plan Announced Last Week
- Keep D2 the same, but stop the D1 at Federal Triangle
- Introduce two short trip D6 routes that split the overall route at Farragut
- The D3 no longer will go to Georgetown (it’s a reverse commuter route that primarily is designed to serve DCPS students), it will stop at Dupont
- The D4 will not reach Georgetown; it will end at Franklin Square
- D5 will extend its nighttime hours. WMATA is a little tricky about describing this. In the release they describe it as “Two additional westbound buses will be scheduled to depart at 3:20 and 6:55 p.m. from Farragut Square.” That would sound like they’ve added two new buses to the schedule. In fact they only added one more bus; they extended the schedule a little further more by extending the headways (i.e. the wait between buses).
- No short cuts announced Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Wisconsin Ave. in snow by Scratch n Sniff.
Good morning Georgetown, hope you enjoyed the snow!
- If you work for the federal government, go back to bed.
- GM’s out of town, so he’ll leave the blow-by-blow Georgetown-in-the-snow reporting to Carol Joynt.
- Seriously, even if you don’t work for the federal government, you probably ought to just go back to bed.
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Guess Who’s One: The Most Popular Post
To celebrate its one year anniversary, the Georgetown Metropolitan is counting down its most popular posts. Today the most popular post, by a long shot: JFK House For Sale.
It’s a bit ironic that this is the most popular post from last year because it was one that took nearly the least amount of effort to write. From walking by, GM had noticed that the house was for sale, knew its history and its current tenant, and one Sunday night couldn’t think of anything else to write about. It goes to show that anytime you put the words JFK and Georgetown together, you’re going to get people interested.
The post was so popular because Politico picked it up (via Citypaper). More titillating was the fact that the house came under contract the exact same day. GM started to wonder whether he had something to do with closing the deal. He got in touch with agent Nancy Taylor Bubes to verify whether his post inspired some Kennedy-lover to jump at the chance for a piece of JFK-lore.
Turns out the deal was pretty much done already. Oh well.
JFK’s first house in Georgetown is currently for sale. From 1947 to 1949, then Congressman John Kennedy lived at 1528 31st. St. with his sister Eunice Kennedy.
Most recently it has been the home of Republican Whip Roy Blunt. He has announced that he’s running for Senate in Missouri next year, so perhaps this sale is part of that effort. It is listed for $1.595 million by neighbor Nancy Taylor Bubes of Washington Fine Properties.
Update: It looks like the house is under contract and has been pulled from Redfin. It’s still here on WFP’s website though. Behold the power of the Georgetown Metropolitan to move real estate.
After the jump, some pictures from inside: Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
G.U. in the snow by Bowena.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- BGR not moving into Nathans spot, but is looking in the neighborhood.
- GM missed this when he linked to it the other day, but Safeway is now looking at a May opening, not March as the original schedule called for.
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Guess Who’s One?: The Second Most Popular Post
This week the Georgetown Metropolitan is celebrating its one year anniversary by counting down the top five most popular posts from the prior year. Today is a post from January 4th, What’s In Store for Social Safeway?
Sometime this year, the Social Safeway at 1855 Wisconsin Ave. will shut its doors and be torn down. The mid-century suburban style grocery store will eventually be replaced by a brand new “lifestyle center” grocery store.
What does that mean? As the competition among city grocery stores has heated up over the years, old standbys like Safeway have had to respond to the Whole Foods and Yes! Organic Groceries of the world with a new style of grocery store. Most recently Safeway opened up the first example of this new model in Mount Vernon Triangle called the City Vista Safeway. These new “lifestyle center” grocery stores are characterized by offering more fresh and organic food, as well as brighter less institutional looking layouts. In other words, they’re pursuing a if-you-can’t-beat-them-imitate-them approach. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Georgetown Waterfront by Vpikering.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- On the heels of opening its new store, Georgetown Cupcake was awarded business of the year by the Georgetown Business Association.
- Ristorante Piccolo to reopen early next year.
- Trees For Georgetown is planting 47 new street trees. Thankfully none are ginkgoes.
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