| Attitudes
changed in the fall of 1966, when Congress transferred responsibility for
rapid transit planning from the NCTA to the Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority, a joint creation of the District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia. As planners considered extensions to the suburbs, they looked
to old railroad rights-of-way as a means of avoiding expensive new tunnels.,
U.S. National Capital Transportation Agency/Louis T. Klauder and Associates,
Appendix to November 1, 1962 Report, Volume II: Use of Railroad Facilities,
1963 GWU. |
