Comments on: Friday Quesion of the Day – How’s Your Experience on Metro?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:18:47 +0000

Metro escalator repairs are not contracted out anymore.

Escalator repair work is done in house by Metro union employees.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:34:30 +0000

the way i see it is if the whiny people keep complaining then things will get better.
and i don’t have to be a whiny ass to enjoy that stuff getting better.

it takes all kinds of people to make the world go round. even whiny people.

By: Raymo in LeDroit

Raymo in LeDroit — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:45:56 +0000

Extend rush hour yellow back to the full extent of it’s route. The crush of people on the green from the Convention Center to about Columbia Heights is crazy. Extending the yellow just to even U Street would make thing so much more balanced.

By: L

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:26:03 +0000

Public transportation in this city is pretty much the only thing I openly complain about. (If a city like Moscow can operate a world class metro system, DC should be able to figure out how to do it, but I haven’t gotten the impression that the people in charge have looked to better systems to figure out how to do it. I’ll stop complaining when they improve the service I’m paying them $6/day for.)

By: Lalaroo

Lalaroo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:08:49 +0000

Maybe because they have to transfer at some point?

By: Emmaleigh504

Emmaleigh504 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:34:39 +0000

I wouldn’t have to change trains is the yellow went all the way to the end during rush hour. I would love that. I could miss the Gallery Place cluster fuck all together.

By: SDJ

SDJ — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:21:52 +0000

There is also a need for Yellow trains to head south across the Potomac. If you make the yellow go all the way to FT, which is the only other place they can switch directions aside from Mt. V^2, you’ll just get people going the opposite direction complaining as much as you.

Ridership is greater on the track south of Pentagon than it is between FT and the Convention Center. So it makes sense that WMATA makes the choices it does given the trains they have.

By: springroadintoaction

springroadintoaction — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:08:29 +0000

The red line platform at Gallery Place is getting dangerous. Waiting for the train this morning, nearly got pushed into the tracks due to the crowding (of course, there was a train that went out of service at Judiciary Square, leaving us with no train for 15 minutes). And by nearly, I mean, I was flailing to stay balanced after getting pushed. At the very minimum, they should have the train only pull up even with the rear (on the Shady Grove side; the Glenmont side is less terrible in this regard), where the junction to the green/yellow transfer lies. But that would make sense, something WMATA hasn’t really been good at lately.

By: Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:30:02 +0000

I have very few complaints about the train service. I think that with the increased volume of passengers using the Green and Yellow lines, they should have the Yellow line going to Fort Totten all the time, not just during “off peak” hours.
My biggest complaint is with what I call the Washington Metro Escalator Repair Full Employment Program. I’ve lived in Petworth for 4 years and for most of that time at least one of the escalators at the GA Ave/Petworth metro has been out of service. About a year ago, they were taken out of service for several months for a complete overhaul. I assumed that this meant they would be functional when they got back in service. No such luck. It seems like some of the escalators in the Metro exist primarily as a means to keep escalator repair people employed.

By: springroadintoaction

springroadintoaction — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:56:21 +0000

The could, except for the time and labor it takes to decouple cars, which is a significant line item. The thought of moving to only 6-car trains was to alleviate this.