Five days out of the average week, I use Metro rail to get to and from work. The station I use is Columbia Heights. Every morning I make the trip there and every afternoon, I make the trip from Columbia Heights station back to Mount Pleasant. I see dozens of you doing the same daily (some on an identical schedule down to the minute!).Whether you cross over on Irving, Park, Monroe or Newton, the quick walk over to 14th Street and the Metro are truly a great reason to live in Mount Pleasant. We get the quaint quirkiness of our neighborhood without the coming and going of traffic on busy 16th or 14th Streets. At the same time, we're within walking distance of the second largest rail system in the United States. Not too shabby.
Since it's our Metro of choice, would you support renaming the station "Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant?" Greater Greater Washington mentioned this as a possible aid to the neighborhood businesses. We'd literally be put on the map for DC area residents and visitors who had never been here. On the other hand, it is not actually in the neighborhood and could possibly cause confusion for some who don't know this part of the city well. What do you think? Vote on the poll and leave a reason for or against in the comments.
9 comments:
Maybe we should rename it "Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Ctr." That station, and not Columbia Heights, is the station that is depicted in this blog post
sorry to the 5 of you that voted already, but i had to edit and reset the poll! my bad.
and jon, nothing gets past my readers! i should have added that as an answer.
personally i'd prefer if all station names were as short as possible.
I have mixed feelings about this. I kinda like people not knowing where Mt. Pleasant is.
Negative. The long names are awkward... I mean U Street/Cardozo/African American Civil War Memorial?
Besides every metro station serves many neighborhoods. Petworth/Georgia Avenue is technically across the street from the NW corner of Columbia Heights.
Anyone with three brain cells can figure out what metro to use to go where they are going and the long names are just silly.
You right for a blog about a bus, why are you taking the metro? :)
I think Metro's station names are long enough as it is. But, if we're on the subject, why not:
Columbia Heights-14th Street/Mount Pleasant/Meridian Hill (Malcom X) Park/Adams Morgan-Pleasant Plains/Wonderland Ballroom Station
Only if it can be Columbia Heights/Park View/Pleasant Plains/Mt. Pleasant/16th St Heights/Tivoli North
And GA/Petworth can be Georgia Avenue/New Hampshire Avenue/Petworth/North Columbia Heights/14th Street Heights
Back in the day, when the metro was still under construction, no one in MtP wanted the name on the station because Columbia Heights was such a crappy place we didn't want to be associated with it.
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