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steelgame1975 t1_j1xvnz6 wrote

Reply to comment by liquibasethrowaway in Questions about the Purple line? by liquibasethrowaway

The fact that they separated the stations from Metro is bonkers. But they did.

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ad-lapidem t1_j1z6xqu wrote

It's a different agency, MTA, that will be operating the Purple Line, so I don't see how they could have been directly integrated. It's no different from, say, SEPTA and PATCO trains in Philadelphia or the NYC Subway and PATH trains in New York and New Jersey, which don't have transfer agreements and didn't even have compatible payment systems.

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steelgame1975 t1_j1z91ko wrote

All of those other systems have multi-system terminals. Penn Station, Grand Central etc. You can literally walk across the hall in the same building and change trains. In Bethesda you will need to exit the station and walk around the corner to the other station entrance to transfer between Metro and Purple Line.

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ad-lapidem t1_j1zagit wrote

Situations like Union Station are the exception, not the rule. There's not even a direct connection from Amtrak/VRE to Metro at Alexandria, or from Amtrak/MARC at New Carrollton, where their platforms are literally across from one another and their rails use the same right of way.

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