Archive for the ‘Talkin' Transit’ Category
Metro like you haven’t seen it
Map by MV Jantzen
We all have our own internal mental map of the Metro that takes into account weekend track work, single tracking, transfers between lines, transfers to buses, and I suspect they look an awful lot like MV Jantzen’s Distorted Metro Map. The cleverly-done HTML 5 app moves the iconic map around a polar [...]
Metro Board authorizes new Station Names for map
‘DC Metro Spiral (Names)’courtesy of ‘thisisbossi’
The Metro board today met to consider some station names and changes to be made ahead of the next redesign of the map and authorized a number of changes to stations you may know and love. Here’s the skinny, straight from Metro:
Navy Yard becomes Navy Yard-Ballpark.
King Street becomes King St-Old [...]
Talkin’ Transit: Metro’s New Map, and a Survey
Part of Metro’s new Map
Metro’s iconic map is at a turning point. The new Silver Line that’s being constructed out to Dulles Airport presents a challenge for the transit system’s existing map, as it would push outward the boundaries on the system past the edge of the page. As part of the upcoming changes, Metro [...]
Metro’s Music Man
Photo Credit: Maryanne Drury
The same love felt in Billy Strayhorn’s ode to the of the rails of New York City in the jazz standard “Take the ‘A’ Train” is still alive and well today a few hundred miles south here in Washington. While the Duke Ellington orchestra is no longer around to send their musical [...]
Mastering Metrobus, or, S.T.R.E.A.M. (SmarTrip Rules Everything Around Me)
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
I’ve been participating in the Zipcar Low Car Diet challenge this month, and something that I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten more transit-dependent is that a lot of intelligent, resourceful people are completely confounded by any bus that’s not the Circulator. If their destination is not close to a Metrorail [...]
Just how fucked is Metro, exactly?
I’ve always wanted a website that could tell me exactly how totally and unrepetently fucked Metro was at any given moment, and now I have my wish. Designer Joey Brunelle built the website, and is still handtuning the application to display how fucked, or not fucked, the metro system is at any given point. It’s [...]
More »Talkin’ Transit: Parking Edition
‘281|365′courtesy of ‘Danilo.Lewis|Fotography’
I hate parking meters. I think they’re an awful concept. Not because they make you pay for what you use, but rather how they make you pay for it: with change. As rates have increased in the downtown core to $2/hr, it means that you need to carry with you rolls and rolls [...]
The Ripple Effect, or why your commute sucked last night
‘SNOW’courtesy of ‘erin m’
Last night’s horrific commutes ranged anywhere from 3-5 hours on the short end to 12-14 hours, we’re hearing, with most of those higher numbers west of the city. Take a look at a couple screenies that Greater Greater Washington put up last night that show pretty much every road west of the [...]
WMATA responds to 23 Dec incident
‘Steppin’ Out, WMATA Style’courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
Metro has released a statement regarding the incident first reported on Unsuck DC Metro that has horrified many: six armed men reportedly boarded an Orange Line train on December 23rd, and allegedly robbed and beat passengers aboard that train, and according to some accounts, the Metro operator did not [...]
Weekend Metro Work to split Blue & Orange lines, close Foggy Bottom
‘Metro Fail’courtesy of ‘Karon’
Get ready for an ugly weekend of transportation. Starting at 10pm on Friday night, Metro will stop all Blue and Orange trains at Rosslyn and Farragut West and turn them around, meaning the only line across the Potomac this weekend is the Yellow line. Hanging at Metro Center and going to Court [...]
WMATA issues statement in wake of beating video
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Metro Emergency Button by Mr. T in DC
By now, I am certain that you have seen the video, or heard about the incident that took place at L’Enfant Metro this past weekend, where a man was beaten by a group of teenagers while they took video of the incident. Metro has now issued a [...]
What’s really happening at those WMATA “random” stops
Screen capture from the WMATA youtube video of today’s first bag swabs
I know – you expect me to say “security theater” and gripe about their ineffectiveness. I may, at the end, but let’s stick to the somewhat interesting factual description for the moment.
Although the WMATA press release doesn’t explicitly say-so, the general description from observers [...]
