Archive for the ‘WMATA’ Category
A logo at your metro? What’s in a name, exactly?
‘Navy Yard Station’courtesy of ’spiggycat’
The news came out of the ANC 6D meeting last night: “What if we just put the Nationals’ logo on there as part of the name?” To some, this is anathema, and representative of name-creep that has plagued Metro over the last few years, and a station called “Navy Yard/Capitol Riverfront/” [...]
Hot Start To Your Commute Today: Fire At Metro Center Ravages Blue/Orange Lines
‘light‘
courtesy of ‘futraprime‘
Lucky for me I didn’t have to go to work today, which would entail riding the Orange Line to Rosslyn.
If I did I’m sure I would of been one of the many angry tweets about this morning’s commute.
If you haven’t heard (of if you haven’t arrived into the office yet), a report of smoke/fire at [...]
A strange change: “Pedestrian, bus is turning”
‘Super Cool New 64 Fort Totten Bus’courtesy of ‘Wayan Vota’
“Pedestrian, bus is turning,” is the new warcry of the average DC Metrobus. Starting this Fall, you might have heard this on a few of Metro’s test buses, but now they’re rolling it out across the city in a pilot program. As soon as the operator [...]
TBD does Escalator Census
‘Escalators sure are pretty’courtesy of ‘Karon’
TBD this week sent their intrepid community people through a grand tour of the Metro, charting each and every station’s escalator status. All told, Metro is missing about 13% of their total escalator fleet right now due to mechanical failures of one sort or another, which is both more than [...]
Does WMATA need a CEO?
‘WMATA Blogger Roundtable’courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’
Greater Greater Washington this morning has an editorial that’s part of their Serious Fixes for Metro series that suggests that what Metro needs isn’t a general manager, but rather a CEO. This morning’s TBD escalator map is pretty grim, and the weekend’s transit work had a pretty good portion of [...]
Faux Metro Ads
‘Vacation’courtesy of ‘futuraprime’
I love this series of fake Metro ads from Evan Hensleigh on Flickr. As bad as it’s been, it’s good that we cans top and laugh a bit at what we’re experiencing out there with Metro’s collapse over the last three years. My personal favorite is the one with the ad, but the [...]
Metro’s weekend maintenance successful
‘Film – Canon A-1 – Morning At Cheverly Station’courtesy of ‘mosley.brian’
This weekend’s station closures on the Orange Line and split of the Blue Line in Maryland may have been a major inconvenience for riders, but it allowed Metro to replace just under a mile of track, over 2000 rail ties, two track switches at Cheverly [...]
Just a Reminder: Major Metro work this weekend on Blue and Orange
‘106/365: Backwards motion’courtesy of ‘Amber Wilkie Photography’
Metro closed three stations over Columbus Day weekend, five stations over Labor Day weekend, and this weekend, five stations on the Orange line are closed and the Blue line is split into two pieces between Stadium/Armory and Benning Road. Greater Greater has a good map for the weekend’s disruptions.
This [...]
Rally for Sanity breaks 19-year Metro Saturday ridership record
‘After the Game’
courtesy of ‘Karon’
If you thought yesterday was a zoo on Metro, you were right. Metro has announced preliminary ridership numbers for yesterday’s rally insanity, and they were through the roof. 825,437 Metrorail trips were taken yesterday by first count, eclipsing the record from the 1991 Desert Storm rally, which drew 786,358 trips. The [...]
A new act of security theater coming to a Metro near you?
‘Barbcue!’courtesy of ‘Dan Dan The Binary Man’
According to WTOP via Slate, this week’s foiled terrorist plot (though how much of a plot is some video and a diagram you could get from any metro station?) may have Metro Police starting random bag searches of riders on the system. I’m not sure how random searches [...]
Move That Gigantic Handbag!
Ladies, ladies, ladies. I realize we have a lot of necessary things we need to take with us to work. Makeup, laptops, mobile devices, gym clothes, chapstick, tampons, pens, epically large wallets filled with receipts and old college IDs…but just because society has leadened us with this burden, doesn’t mean our ridiculously large handbags are [...]
More »Metro station names to change?
‘SBB CFF FFS LOL OMG BBQ WTF TLA’courtesy of ‘Mike Knell’
Navy Yard and Waterfront/SEU are the latest stations about to go through the giant renaming dance. According to JDLand, they may well become much longer. Aaron Morrissey, intrepid editor of DCist, has an editorial in the Post today, crafted from his DCist post on the [...]
Metro Reconsiders Their SmarTrip Changes
‘#WMATA Smartrip reader’s impression of the first Terminator:’
courtesy of ‘brownpau’
The Washington Examiner is reporting that Carol Dillon Kissal, Metro’s deputy general manager, told the Metro Riders’ Advisory Council that the previously approved SmarTrip card price drop from $5 to $2.50 has presented some “tricky issues,” prompting Kissal and her staff to come up with other [...]
Talkin’ Transit: On the Tube
I’ll wait while you watch that video, possibly for the second (or third time).
After seeing yesterday’s video for Metro’s new Train Arrivals by Phone service, I figured I’d go look through some of the video that Metro has posted over the last few years to YouTube.
Below the fold, my favorites, including gems made for [...]
DHS Warns of Terror Threat to Metro
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courtesy of ‘erin m’
NBC4 reports that the DHS warned WMATA on Sunday of a potential terror threat to the Metro system. According to a DHS memo, an individual obtained a Turkish visa to come to the States and perpetrate a bombing on a Metro station. The memo stated that this information has “low credibility” and [...]
Labor Day Weekend, Metro will close five Red Line stations
Metro announced yesterday that over the Labor Day weekend, they will be closing five stations at the Glenmont end of the Red Line in order to do significant track work in order to comply with NTSB recommendations. Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen, Silver Spring and Takoma will be closed from 10pm on Friday, September 3rd, [...]
More »Rain, Rain, Go The Heck Away and Stop Causing Trouble
Flooding at Foggy Bottom Metro / Photo by Tiffany Bridge
It’s as if Snopocalypse Now Parts I and II weren’t enough for the crazy weather the District’s seen in 2010. Storms galore are appearing at a more consistent rate than a Nats win streak.
Is it god crying because baseball Jesus was put on the disabled list? [...]
