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Thursday, May 10 General Meeting Information

U Street Neighborhood Association will have its general meeting on May 10, 2012 at the Third District Pollce Station community room at 7 pm.  DDOT will give updates on the U Street streetscape.  The office of Planning will be providing an overview of the PUD process.  JBG will be providing updates and describe the variances they are requesting for the project at Florida/8th Street.  Hiba Abdallah will be presenting on a facility planned to be built at 9th/S St NW for individuals aging out of the foster care system.  Also Zahir Rahimi (owner of Mila 2015 14th St) will describe his desire to change this clothing store to a restaurant.  We will also be discussing the U Street Neighborhood Harrison Recreation Center film series starting in May.

 

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Non-rush Yellow Line service extended to Fort Totten

The Yellow Line is about to get a little longer.Image
  
The Yellow Line will be extended to the Fort Totten Metrorail station during off-peak hours starting Sunday, December 31, 2006.
 
Extension of Yellow Line service has been a priority project of CSNA and was championed by CSNA's  Transportation & Parking Committee and CSNA member and past-president, Scott Pomeroy.  Additional thanks to our Ward 2 neighbor, Carlson Klapthor, who introduced the idea of beginning with additional off-peak service, where the greatest gaps in Green Line service exist.  By only adding additional off-peak service, this reduced the cost of the pilot program dramatically. 
 
The new extended service adds five extra stops on the northern end of the line and will provide additional off-peak rail service to customers traveling to the Shaw-Howard U, U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo, Columbia Heights and Georgia Ave-Petworth Metrorail stations.
 
Weekday off-peak service (9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.) will operate every six minutes. Week night (after 7 p.m.), and weekend service will run every 7 1/2 to 10 minutes.
"We listened to what community asked and needed," said Jim Graham, Metro Board Member who represents the District of Columbia, and is the D.C. Councilmember for Ward 1.
 
"During a Town Hall meeting last year, customers of the Columbia Heights, U Street and Petworth neighborhoods told us they wanted more train service because their neighborhoods were experiencing rapid development. Now, the Yellow Line extended service to Fort Totten will help support the area's development and urban lifestyle," he said.
 
The trip from Huntington to Fort Totten will be six to 10 minutes faster with this new service, which helps connect Northern Virginia with Columbia Heights, Petworth and the U Street neighborhoods.

The 18-month pilot costs $5.75 million and will be paid by the District of Columbia.

Metro's online Trip Planner is already programmed with the new train schedules and routes that will get you to your destination via the most direct route, including this new Yellow Line Extension to Fort Totten during weekends and off-peak.

 
Map Graphic Courtesy of WMATA. 

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