A stadium can’t be transit first without transit infrastructure (opens in new tab)

When WMATA stated last month that it would not be station at the former RFK Stadium site, the news exposed a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the DC’s decision to move forward with its transformational, billion-dollar stadium district: The project is being framed as “transit first,” yet it is being designed without real transit infrastructure. That contradiction also reflects a broader American infrastructure problem: We continue to build mega-destinations first, and to retrofit mobi...