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Today the Post ran a story about how D.C. United has sent an online poll to their fans, asking them to rank, in order of preference, where they'd like to see a new stadium built. The three options are the Dulles Corridor, Lower Montgomery County, or the District of Columbia. If you didn't get the survey via email from the team, you can click here to share your thoughts. Along with asking how many games you think you'd be able to attend depending on where the stadium is built, the second question is perhaps most telling: "Assuming there is not a new stadium option for D.C. United within the District of Columbia, please rank each of the following two possible stadium locations based on your preference: Dulles Corridor/Dulles Airport or Lower Montgomery County." The survey will remain online through the end of the week.
D.C. United Polls Fans on Stadium Location
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Vote DC, vote DC, vote DC.
No to MoCo, no to NOVA.
i'm voting for the "dulles united" sponsored by united airlines.
Dulles Corridor? I hope that's a joke.
Plenty of land out there...
but I won't see a game unless it's in DC. Sorry United. You need to go play hardball with our hardheaded mayor and make Poplar Point work.
With any luck, shit-for-brains Fenty will be voted out of office next fall, and replaced with someone who is willing to do business. Hopefully DC United can wait that long.
Dulles!?! Are you friggin' kidding me? I guess it would be convenient for the away teams but c'mon! DC all the way!
Dulles!?! Are you friggin' kidding me?
Srsly. Hey DC United, do you want to ensure that I *never* go to another game? Move out to Dulles.
There's plenty of room for a stadium in Prince William County. Just nuke a couple subdivisions from orbit and roll out the asphault. Unless you've got any illegal immigrants on your team. In which case, you're not welcome.
I think Dulles is a long, long shot (as well as a long drive). Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a hint of positive talks/developments within the city limits. Montgomery County sounds like the only semi-interested party. Things are not looking up - though everyone likes Will Chang.
Is it futile to dream about Poplar Point still? Can you bike on the Frederick Douglass bridge?
Considering how much help United would need from the city for Poplar Point - and how the city clearly has other priorities - and the club need something to progress soon - and how complicated Poplar Point is from a federal and environmental standpoint. Yes, it's pretty futile. Though the dream is not completely dead.
I think they're saying if they can't get that, then when do people prefer.
Thanks, AW. There really should have been an option for "neither". Although I drive.. nearly everywhere.. parking prices at RFK are prohibitive enough to make me metro to every United game. That's one of a fistful of reasons the Dulles idea is laughable. But, if Loudon can bring the Benjamins willingly with no pork, then it's something for Will to consider, I guess..
On the bright side, by 2013 a Dulles stadium might actually be Metro accessible. That is, if the MLS hasn't folded by then.
The first two questions don't make any sense. It asks you to rank the three options, then it asks you to rank two of the options. Don't you think they could infer the second answer from the first? If I say I'd prefer DC then MoCo then Dulles, wouldn't it be a pretty safe bet that I'd rank it Moco then Dulles if DC isn't an option?
Yeah, but that would make sense. Remember that sports statisticians are not the same as real statisticians.
Realistically, the only acceptable location is in DC. People in NOVA will not go to Wheaton for a DC United game (if they even know where Wheaton is), and nobody in their right mind would go to Dulles for a game unless you were allowed to use the airport access road, which isn't likely to happen.
If Dulles is going to be an option, why isn't the Nissan Pavilion area an option? With the exception of a few malcontents and doom-and-gloom mongers, nobody ever has trouble getting there and back in rush-hour traffic.
I've said as much in the survey, but just to make the point ever louder... Never Dulles. NEVER DULLES.
Other alleged "long-shots" have come to pass, so as long as anybody's mentioning it, even as a joke, it's far too dangerous. Never f*kkin' Dulles.
What I don't understand is how Houston's stadium is expected to cost around $80 million and DCU's projections are always around $200 million (at least). I know land in Houston is cheaper, but they're building their stadium in a pretty prime spot, immediately adjacent to the central business district and right next to the convention center and the baseball field. Why are we not able to do something in that price range?
If Poplar Point doesn't work out, can't they just play in the catacombs underneath McMillan reservoir? Keeps the team in DC and it would instantly be the most entertaining soccer venue in the world. Win-win!
I think they just put the Dulles option on there to make MoCo seem like less awful by comparison. Either would suck.
Rockville or Silver Spring are a lot closer than Dulles, and have a Metro line now. DC > MoCo > Dulles
I think the club are over-sweetening the Montgomery County thing. I have a hard time believing they could find space in the lower part of the county. Near Shady Grove Metro seems to be the best option. And while that's Metro accessible - it's also very far from the city.