Comments on: Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Mess

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Foggy Bottom Metro Escalator Fail (Again) » We Love DC — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:29:50 +0000

[...] Those of you who ride Metro from Foggy Bottom Station, does this scene look familiar? [...]

By: Joseph Sixpack

Joseph Sixpack — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:28:44 +0000

Neither. But, just to clarify, I don’t hate suburbanites.

I apologize for failing to point this out, in addition to not writing it in the first place.

By: Hey

Hey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:13:42 +0000

Joseph Sixpack, do you live next to your job or are you just sitting around collecting welfare checks? Because a lot of commuters are within the city, not your hated “suburbanites”

By: Joseph Sixpack

Joseph Sixpack — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:38:48 +0000

That is hilarious footage at the end of the video. I am so glad that I am not some suburbanite who needs to go through the time, pain, and expense of commuting into and out of this city everyday. It cannot possibly be worth whatever amount of money people save. I’ll keep paying my outrageous rent for living in DC because I would have a “Falling Down” moment if I put up with crap like this everyday.

By: Davin Peterson

Davin Peterson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:20:19 +0000

That is worst than Capitol South. Capitol South has 3 escalators and a set of cement steps. These escalator seem to break down frequently, as this station doesn’t have a canopy. One day last week, 2 escalators were out and the only working one was going up. So, people had to walk down the escalator and a woman complained that she can’t walk down.

By: kob

kob — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:33:04 +0000

Poor Foggy Bottom Metro. The biggest problem, in my mind, is lack of stairs, especially on the mezzanine. But that’s true for a lot other Metro stations as well. The Metro stations weren’t designed to handle people all that well.

By: Hey

Hey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:43:19 +0000

Yeah, why didn’t someone just hit the emergency stop button the “down” escalator?

By: required optional field

required optional field — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:53:00 +0000

1. Metro’s policy is that if only one escalator is running, it should be running UP. Whey didn’t any of the Metro employees know this and do something about it?

2. When faced with brain-dead Metro employees like this, the solution is to hit the emergency stop button on the working escalator. Let the idiot Metro employees explain what happened to their superiors.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:37:54 +0000

It was pretty ridiculous this morning. I mean, if only one escalator works, the least they could do is make it go up! Walking up doesn’t bother me, but it would have sped up even that process.

The other problem has been the fact that this problem has plagued FoBo for more than a week now. It just was a perfect storm of sorts today.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:45:31 +0000

The employees should be a little more circumspect about how amused they seem, but in fairness to them it’s unlikely that anyone working at that station has one iota of input on escalator maintenance or repair….

By: jared

jared — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:25:13 +0000

the worst part was the rude or nonchalant metro employees who literally smiled and laughed at the crowds as they waited to walk up the escalator.

By: Fredo

Fredo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:04:17 +0000

IIRC, Metro got some serious flack for this a few summers ago. I (vaguely) recall that as a result, Metro was required to keep an escalator running up if the other wasn’t running, assuming there was more than one at the same entrance. Escalators aren’t really designed to be climbed; their steps are too steep.

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:44:59 +0000

Hmmm, I think the left side runners do make you feel like you’re caught in a hamster/rat race…

But seriously, this is bad… but try Wheaton when the escalators are out.