Unsuck DC Metro: D'oh

Thursday, June 9, 2011

D'oh

I don't know what station or what time. The video was posted June 7.

via Youtube user famercado123

It was rush hour, and the Metro was crowded as hell. Then it stopped in a station and a voice over the speakers said we should get out because there was a "medical emergency" with a passenger. Additionally, they told us to go upstairs. Around 500 people over crowded the "never working properly" escalators. When almost everyone was upstairs, an announcement said that the problem was "resolved" and that the train was going to return to service.

An then what is shown in the video happened. The majority of people went to the escalators that were going down, but a group of people decided to "outsmart" the others and go back faster by turning around and going down in the escalators that were going up. This could go wrong in so many ways, just imagine that somebody fell in the middle of the way...

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BradK · 720 weeks ago

So, we give metro employees a lot of shit on this blog..... but when you have to select your employees from the general public (depicted here), I guess we are fortunate the trains sometimes get us to where we need to go.

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Anon · 720 weeks ago

Real winners...

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RedLineROFL · 720 weeks ago

Unsucking the Metro isn't 100% about unsucking Metro, it's about unsucking the riders too. Right?

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 720 weeks ago

Yes.

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RedLineROFL · 720 weeks ago

Maybe Mr. Stessel should pay more attention, then, and realize that Unsuck is just as hard on the riding public as it is on Metro. We ALL have a responsibility to make Metro better. I must admit, that's hard to say after my ride in a metro car with no A/C this morning. It was already stifling in there.

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UnSuck Fan · 720 weeks ago

I would TOTALLY be that woman at :10-:18!! However, she made it to the end whereas I probably wouldn't have made it. That's why I would never go in the opposite direction of a moving escalator.

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anon · 720 weeks ago

Yes, this is funny and yes these riders are stupid, but WTF was going on that led to the poor decision to get everyone out and then tell them to come back. idiocy and a recipe for disaster.

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M.S.O.I.B.D. · 720 weeks ago

See? Sometimes WMATA throws comedy our way for cheap sh*ts and giggles to lighten our moods. It's just no one is ever prepared to document it...until now. Now loop it, speed it up, and add the soundtrack to the Benny Hill show and let the "hahas" flow.

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Sweet Bobby · 720 weeks ago

It's a nice reminder that, despite WMATA's glaring deficiencies, the ridership might be Metro's biggest problem.

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jkuchen · 720 weeks ago

You'd think that the slower ones would have the decency to stay to the right so that the faster ones could pass on the left. Who do they think they are, tourists? :-)

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TFUNK · 720 weeks ago

@unsuckdcmetro Are you aware of any studies on the air quality within different metro stations?

I'm curious as to just how unhealthy the air in the underground stations is.

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SecondHandMetroSmoke · 720 weeks ago

woof, if air quality is rated unhealthy outside, I can only imagine what the air in those stations would be rated.
I often enter a station and notice a haze in the air with no particular smell, you can just tell there is crap in the air.
That and the (obviously bad for you) brake smoke aren't doing much for your lungs.

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 720 weeks ago

Actually, I looked into this a while back. Metro provided a study that showed things were within regulations. Then again, I've heard many rumors that the air is bad, part. Court House. Haven't had time to check deeper.

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andyuncut 0p · 720 weeks ago

It was Ballston-GMU on Wednesday morning. I was there. This is much hoopla for nothing. Someone had a medical requirement and they did what they thought was best. The operator might not have known how quickly the train can move again and the patient was really on the other end. There might have been some other reason, we don;'t know. Please be considerate, some one needed a medical treatment.