Brightwood Metro Station???

Urban Turf featured an article about neighborhoods that need a metro station. The bus service here in Brightwood is actually really good, with several major bus lines all traversing through the neighborhood. And any of the 70 buses can provide a multitude of entertainment, day or night. I personally witnessed a fight break out between two middle-aged women on the 79; they were fighting about a seat...however, the bus was half empty. I wish I had more to report about the fight but years of riding the metro has taught me to look straight ahead, be inconspicuous, and wait for the storm to pass. But a metro station...how much easier would life be if it was a short jaunt to the metro versus a 1 1/2 walk or a 10-15 minute bus ride? Quick disclaimer: no where has WMATA actually said they even had an iota of thought about building a Brightwood Station. And anyone who has lived in the area for over 10 years knows all about the Columbia Heights Station upheaval, and that residents heard jackhammers for forever. But here's a little daydream about public transportation.

Metro's Missed Opportunities
By Mark Wellborn

There is probably not one person reading this post that hasn’t finished a day shopping in Georgetown or walked around in search of a cab late at night in Adams Morgan and wished that these neighborhoods had a Metro station.
With that point in mind, Greater Greater Washington recently had a great item recently that looked at the “Top 10 Missed Metro Stations” or more specifically, the ten DC area neighborhoods that probably should have Metro stations, but don’t.
There are some obvious neighborhoods on the list (Georgetown and Adams Morgan) but also places like Kalorama (the author noted that the gap between Dupont Circle and Woodley Park “feels enormous”) and one of our favorite areas, Brightwood (“a station at Brightwood would fill the long gap between Petworth and Silver Spring left by the Green Line’s sudden turn east.”)
The remaining neighborhoods in the top ten are Cardozo, the H Street Corridor, Langdon Park, Old Town, Alexandria, Bloomingdale, and Lincoln Park. Honorable mentions included Historic Anacostia, Glover Park, Cathedral Heights, Logan Circle, BWI, Shirlington.

http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/metros_missed_opportunities/1564