Mapping the D.C.'s Region's 267 Miles of Proposed Transit

Dan Malouff writes a post, and creates a map, that imagines the full extent of the 267 miles of proposed light rail, streetcar, and bus rapid transit lines proposed in the D.C. metro area.

"This map combines the DC streetcar and MoveDC bus lane plan with the Arlington streetcar plan, the Alexandria transitway plan, Montgomery's BRT plan, and Fairfax's transit network plan, plus the Purple Line, the Corridor Cities Transitway, the Long Bridge study, the Wilson Bridge transit corridor, and finally the Southern Maryland transit corridor."

Malouff provides the caveat that it would be decades before all this infrastructure could be built, if ever. Some of the plans have been in the works since the 1990s, and others are so new that have yet to receive a feasibility study.

"But still," says Malouff, "267 miles is an awfully impressive network. Now let's build it."