Comments on: Talkin’ Transit: Doors to Nowhere http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/ Your Life Beyond The Capitol Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Metro Singalong 2009 » We Love DC http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-15796 Metro Singalong 2009 » We Love DC Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:14:37 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13723#comment-15796 [...] 8 doors opening to nowhere [...] [...] 8 doors opening to nowhere [...]

]]> By: Prof. Baracus http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-8622 Prof. Baracus Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:01:16 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13723#comment-8622 Why isn't there an effective advocacy group that can give voice to the thousands upon thousands of metro rail and bus riders who get screwed by Metro's incompetence on a daily basis? If Metro had a petition with thousands of names on it asking all trains to stop at the end of platforms could they still claim riders don't want this? And don't tell me about metroriders.org or transitfirst. those two operate in the dark ages of the internet despite the great positions they take. Why isn’t there an effective advocacy group that can give voice to the thousands upon thousands of metro rail and bus riders who get screwed by Metro’s incompetence on a daily basis?

If Metro had a petition with thousands of names on it asking all trains to stop at the end of platforms could they still claim riders don’t want this?

And don’t tell me about metroriders.org or transitfirst. those two operate in the dark ages of the internet despite the great positions they take.

]]> By: Samer http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-8564 Samer Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:15:02 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13723#comment-8564 Don't pull up to the front. You might not be stupid, but around here, "we" are stupid. Time after time, I see the signs that say an 8-car train is coming, but the first and last car are almost always empty, because people don't bother reading. Best solution: run 8-car trains all the damn time. Don’t pull up to the front. You might not be stupid, but around here, “we” are stupid. Time after time, I see the signs that say an 8-car train is coming, but the first and last car are almost always empty, because people don’t bother reading.

Best solution: run 8-car trains all the damn time.

]]> By: jw http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-8562 jw Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:37:50 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13723#comment-8562 Why not a placard in the operator's booth that says "This is a 4/6/8 car train"? It would be kind of hard to forget then. Why not a placard in the operator’s booth that says “This is a 4/6/8 car train”? It would be kind of hard to forget then.

]]> By: TheDenverite http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/10/talkin-transit-doors-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-8554 TheDenverite Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:16:28 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13723#comment-8554 When I get on at Rosslyn to head home, there's a lamp at the end of the lower platform. It flashes either blue or orange, showing which way the switch is guiding a train as it pulls in. Perhaps we just need these at each Metro platform, where the operator looks right at it every time they pull into a station. Except instead of a blue/orange/whatever color lamp, it says whether a train is six or eight cars? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? I think it does, even as I type it. And yet, if these people are dumb enough not to remember in the first place, maybe we need to dumb things down to their level. Beats falling out of a train onto a third rail because some retard Metro operator didn't pass the fourth grade. When I get on at Rosslyn to head home, there’s a lamp at the end of the lower platform. It flashes either blue or orange, showing which way the switch is guiding a train as it pulls in.

Perhaps we just need these at each Metro platform, where the operator looks right at it every time they pull into a station. Except instead of a blue/orange/whatever color lamp, it says whether a train is six or eight cars?

Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? I think it does, even as I type it. And yet, if these people are dumb enough not to remember in the first place, maybe we need to dumb things down to their level. Beats falling out of a train onto a third rail because some retard Metro operator didn’t pass the fourth grade.

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