Unsuck DC Metro: We Get It

Friday, August 27, 2010

We Get It

Photo: Matt Johnson from Tracktwentynine.blogspot.com

"If you're changing at Fort Totten, be prepared to master the 5Ds of Metro: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge! If you can dodge a cone, you can catch a train."

East Falls Church bus "shelter." Another cone would have been nice.

@KaeSaid @unsuckdcmetro This has been here for at least the 6 months I've been using this station. #wmata #redline #takoma http://twitpic.com/2iao83

Malevolent trashcan at Federal Center SW.

Other items:
Metro installing cameras on buses to monitor driving (WMATA)
Two injured in Green Line assault (WaPo)
Va. Sq. hero (Arlnow.com)
A modest (Metro) proposal (Emilyhaha)

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Sarah · 760 weeks ago

I definitely transfer from Red to Green at Ft. Totten everyday and I've never noticed those cones.

Fail.

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@poptdc · 760 weeks ago

It's not what you see above that's going to kill you... it's what you don't see below your feet that will:

Fort Totten:

Takoma:

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 760 weeks ago

Not sure why those aren't showing up.

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@poptdc · 760 weeks ago

Pretty sure I got the code right... the click-through works though.

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Godsend Conspirator · 760 weeks ago

you gotta put the DIRECT link to the .jpg in there, not the short twitpic link. to get a direct link, right-click the image, click PROPERTIES, and copy/paste the URL.

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 760 weeks ago

Thanks.

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@poptdc · 760 weeks ago

Ummm.. you sure?

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Godsend Conspirator · 760 weeks ago

I dunno mayne, there may be "more than one way to skin a cat"... but that's the way I skin cats!

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yourmom · 760 weeks ago

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOnes!

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@hostagehoosier · 760 weeks ago

There are also an abundance of cones at West Falls Church. But I really like how at WFC they have stacks and stacks of new tiles sitting in one of the little covered areas with the bench. They have been there since last winter some time. fail fail fail.

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Ever and Anon · 760 weeks ago

That first pic looks rather like Christmas. Wonder if they can light em up for the holidays?

Then again, perhaps its more of a photo shoot of little orange aliens waiting patiently for a ride downtown. (The Malevolent Trashcan is the brains behind the world take-over of course.)

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SoBar · 760 weeks ago

Love the last paragraph from the WaPo story on the Green Line assault: "Raney [a witness] said that he did not see any police officers while he was at the station and that no one took his name as a witness."

And the commenters over there are beating up on Metro employees for having the passengers move the victim.

Love that I get to ride the Green Line every day.

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Piner · 760 weeks ago

Reminds me of all the times I'd go to a public pool in DC and parts of the pool would be out of service, the diving boards roped off. I thought they'd close the whole pool if they could!

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ANON · 760 weeks ago

the METROBSTACLE course!

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Ever and Anon · 760 weeks ago

oh good one! Who needs Golds' Gym? :-D

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GlenmontGirl · 760 weeks ago

I think every person who stands on the left side of the escalator, forces the doors open while they are closing, or sneezes into their hand and then grabs a pole should be forced to run between all of these 10 times as punishment.