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       I grew up near Woodley Road and Wisconsin Avenue in Northwest Washington, so I was intrigued to hear that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is considering a Metro stop in Georgetown, as reported in the July 11 Metro article “New tunnel and stops among Metro’s expansion proposals.” However, there was a time when Georgetown residents rose up and opposed the route, which is why the Red Line cuts from Tenleytown over to Connecticut Avenue.

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       Now, Georgetown is facing the twin challenges of parking and traffic, demanding a multibillion-dollar fix. As you sow, Georgetown, so shall you reap.

       John Schelp, Durham, N.C.

       My excitement about Metro’s proposed expansion proposals — at long last, a station in Georgetown — dimmed upon further reading. “It would be decades before any extension would open,” the July 11 Metro article reported. The beleaguered 16-mile Purple Line inching through my neighborhood has been a decade in the making and still won’t open for a few more years.

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       I recently read Stephen E. Ambrose’s book “Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869.” The transcontinental railroad was 1,900 miles and completed in six years, including tunneling through the Sierra Nevadas, handling world-record snowstorms and shipping supplies to California around the tip of South America or through the mosquito-infested Isthmus of Panama — all done with virtually no power tools.

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