Posts Tagged ‘metrobus’
DC Mythbusting: A Bus By Any Other Name
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
Welcome to another edition of DC Mythbusting. This week we’re looking into the Metrobus system. The rail system is easy enough to understand– it is organized by color, with five lines in total. But there are over 300 bus routes serving the DC area, so the color system wouldn’t [...]
Metrobus Passenger Shot on U2 near Minnesota Ave
‘Metro Bus, Downtown Washington DC’courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
Metro has just announced that a passenger on board a U2 Metrobus was shot early this evening near the intersection of 18th & Minnesota Ave SE. The passenger was transported by life-flight helicopter to Washington Hospital Center with significant injuries. No motive is apparent, [...]
There Will Be A Test. It Will Just Be A Test.
‘Metro Station Platform’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
Should you be near the Friendship Heights Metro station this Wednesday around midnight, you’ll be seeing a fair amount of law enforcement, as the Metro Transit Police Department’s special response team, the FBI, DCPD, DCFD and emergency medical services personnel practice a staged emergency response exercise.
According to WMATA’s website, the [...]
Gorgeous Comparison of Rail Systems
Good has an incredibly sexy graphic comparing WMATA to other large transit systems including CTA, BART, MBTA and MTA, including length of commute averages and other sweet statistics. This is nothing short of sweet, sweet infoporn. How does Metro compare? Right in the middle of the big five transit systems for average [...]
More »See How Far They’ve Come
‘taking the bus’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Metrobus is reinventing itself, reports The Examiner. Their new slogan (“See how far we’ve come”) and ad campaign is taking over the District. This $739,000 campaign is aimed at reversing the decline in bus riders in the wake of several Metrobus accidents last year.
While I like the shiny new buses, I [...]
Another Near Metro Disaster & Potential Price Hike
‘It has been a long day’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
As if WMATA hasn’t been in the news enough, today comes word that on December 10, 2009, a team of independent safety inspectors were nearly struck by a metro train at the Braddock Road Station. According to the Tri-State Oversight Committee, the inspectors “were forced to quickly scramble [...]
Power Outage Causing Metro Issues
Update: WMATA is slowly bringing back services. Metrobus fareboxes and bus radios are back in operation, MetroAccess dispatch and online reservations are working, and this morning I heard a public address system test. More info from this WMATA release.
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Update on Cell Phone Bus Driver
‘Metro on the Move’
courtesy of ‘M.V. Jantzen’
Everyone remember the uproar back on July 30 when UnsuckDCMetro posted the story and photo about the 63 bus with the driver who was chatting on her cell phone, even getting off the bus to do so?
Seems it may have been a legitimate call after all.
According to another blog [...]
Talkin’ Transit: O Bus, Where Art Thou?
‘waiting’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Chock full of WMATA today.
First up, it looks like the Circulator will be taking over one or two Metrobus routes this spring. This would increase the local service to five looping routes from the current three. Which routes aren’t yet determined, but Circulator officials have stated they can offer the same service as [...]
Talkin’ Transit: Transfer Pains
Metro SmarTrip Card, courtesy of Mr. T in DC
Metro has announced they are moving forward with their plans to eliminate the free paper-to-bus transfers, as well as the discounted rail-to-bus transfers, beginning on January 4 of next year. Discounts aren’t going away, however – you just have to have a SmarTrip card to get it.
There’s [...]
