Unsuck DC Metro: Metro Tweets Response to Escalator Issues

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Metro Tweets Response to Escalator Issues

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metroopensdoors Metro posted the unabridged 308-page escalator/elevator report on its website at: http://www.wmata.com/vtx/
metroopensdoors Metro report: major factor of the state of escalators/elevators is result of years of lack of adherence to Metro's maintenance standards
metroopensdoors Report identifies escalator brakes among several issues to be addressed. Greater emphasis should have been placed on brakes as safety issue
metroopensdoors Metro has inspected 405 units; replaced 25 brakes & taken 47 units out of service for brake pad replacement or oil contamination remediation
metroopensdoors Any Metro escalator inspection that reveals a potential safety hazard results in that escalator immediately being removed from service
metroopensdoors Metro is on schedule to complete all brake inspections this week

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@ChrisHowdy · 749 weeks ago

Gonna steal John's thunder here and ask how, given that second tweet, Mr. David Lacosse still has a job.

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John · 749 weeks ago

You bastard! :)

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@deafinthecity · 749 weeks ago

How nice of them to Tweet their statement....after turning down press interviews. *roll eyes*.

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John · 749 weeks ago

Its a shame there are no tweets from metroopensdoors saying "Metro has fired David Lacosse and Dave Kubicek"

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krikket · 749 weeks ago

I'd like to know how deep these "inspections" are going to go, considering WMATA says they're going to inspect 588 escalators in approx. 5 days? That's well over 100 inspections a day, which doesn't make sense to me.

I also think it would be helpful if WMATA would announce which stations have both escalators and elevators down at the same time. Normally I ride the train to the Pentagon Station where I board a bus home. On Wednesday (11/10/10) evening the street elevator was out of order (but no sign was up) and all the escalators were down. For medical reasons I can't walk up 40-50 steps, but didn't know there would be a problem because no such announcement was made. I got off at the station, but had to re-board and go to the King Street Station (where I can walk down the steps) and take a DASH bus home. It meant a longer walk to my apartment, which I didn't mind, and the weather was nice which helped...lol. My complaint is that my commute home cost me almost twice as much as normal because of departing and re-entering at the Pentagon than if I had just gone all the way to King Street. It also meant that the trip took an extra hour, waiting for a train and then the bus. "There must be a less efficient way for Metro to handle this problem, so I'm sure they just haven't studied the problem."