Posts Tagged ‘metrorail’
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 [...]
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‘Navidad en el metro’
courtesy of ‘Daquella manera’
With apologies to purists of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, Johnny Catoe and Metro gave to DC…
12 budget shortfalls of 22 40 175 million dollars!
11 pole hogs hogging
10 SmarTrip card upgrades … no, wait … here we go … um, maybe … yes! … [...]
Metro Closes Above Ground Service at 1pm
Metro has just announced that they will discontinue above-ground rail service at 1pm today, until the snow has stopped. That will close 39 stations until the snowfall has been managed.
In addition: Metrobus and Metro Access will stop running at 1:30pm.
The reason for the closures at 8″ of snow is that if the third-rail is [...]
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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The Record That Won’t Fall: 1,120,000 Metrorail Trips
Metro PlatformOriginally uploaded by tbridge
Before last week, the best day on Metro came this past Summer, with 854,000 riders. Yesterday smashed that record. Metro has now released the numbers for yesterday’s totals and they’re astronomical. 1.12M riders on the Metro. Another 423,000 rode Metrobus yesterday, leading to a total public transit [...]
Talkin Transit: Parking Power
DC Transit System Map, courtesy of Cowtools
So another Inauguration Day hype has been deflated. Metro announced that they’ll be opening up thousands of parking spaces for cars at all Metrorail stations (save one) for Inauguration Day festivities. The prophesied “parkapocalypse” has been debunked.
So what happened?
When setting up initial plans for January 20th, WMATA set aside [...]
Four Line Announcements
Four Line AnnouncementsOriginally uploaded by brownpau
Paulo captured this shot of the new Metro sign format for announcements. The old side-scrolling versions are thankfully history as they were nearly impossible to read. Thankfully, Metro’s embracing some good IA these days and going for something that’s a bit more passenger friendly than the crawl, which [...]
Metrorail Madness at Just 66% Capacity
WMATA is having one hell of a bad day, nay, bad month, that just happens to be capped by a really bad day. We’ve had multiple Metrorail outages today, on the Red, Yellow, Orange, and now all Metrorail lines. And who knows how many escalators are out.
You can blame the high heat. [...]
WMATA Alert: Yellow Line Broken
Photo by Wayan
Hot tip for those hoping to cross the Potomac River on Metrorail’s Yellow Line.
Due to an emergency at L’Enfant Station, Yellow Line trains are not crossing the river after Crystal City.
Better to catch a Blue Line train and pray.
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