‘Metro, Orange Line train to Vienna’
courtesy of ‘GogonaÅ?’
The Business Journal reports that riders on Saturday set a new record for July 4th commuting. Metro reported 631,206 trips on their system, an increase of over 32,000 from 2008 ridership. If the masses of humanity that I saw are any indication, every last one of these trips went through L’Enfant Plaza station. What a mess.
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3 Responses to “A Record Setting 4th for Metro”
July 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Nope they were all at Metro Center.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Works for me. Maybe that’s why it took me about 45 minutes to get home to Reston from the USMC War Memorial. That’s not too bad for a major holiday.
Viva le Metro!
July 7th, 2009 at 10:00 am
If I recall correctly, the all-time system records were almost always July 4 of the latest year, until this year’s inauguration. Is that correct?
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