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Speak Up, Metro, So Your Riders Can Hear You

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Dear Dr. Gridlock:

I wish to address the problem of getting spectators to and from Nationals games. It is expected that spectators would take the train and get off at the Navy Yard Station.

This is a rinky-dink little station and platform that handles only one line. One solution is to use buses to take the pressure off Navy Yard, and it has been suggested that everybody be encouraged to take the N22 Metrobus. The problem with this is that to find the stop, you have to be on the east side of Navy Yard Station (the side that has not been upgraded), and spectators must endure a long ride through uncertain neighborhoods before they get to Union Station.

Instead, I propose that a special Circulator shuttle be set up in a continuous loop from the stadium to L'Enfant Plaza and Judiciary Square Metro stations. This shuttle would run every 15 minutes at the beginning and end of each game, and would quickly get spectators to and from the larger stations, where the excess passengers could easily be absorbed. These buses are new, large and easy to board, and they could easily handle many passengers with coolers and other sports-watching equipment.

Eleanor Lawson

Springfield

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