A Million Dollar Bus stop with 23 more in the works

What local D.C. metro issue could capture the attention of CNN, USA Today and even a Russian state-run news outlet? 

The answer: a bus stop. 

Of course, this is no ordinary bus stop -- it is Arlington's now infamous $1 million bus stop, situated at the corner of Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Drive. 

No, it wasn't constructed using gold bricks. It wasn't designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from beyond the grave. And there isn't a Picasso -- or a Renoir of mysterious provenance -- hanging from the glass shelter. 

It does have a digital display that shows riders when the next few buses will arrive and features a necessity for all bus stops -- a heated concrete floor. 

But that's where the luxuries start and end.

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