Unsuck DC Metro: Red Line Blues

Monday, June 13, 2011

Red Line Blues

Via @craigcyoung People walking down track toward twinbrook @DCist_Updates @unsuckdcmetro http://lockerz.com/s/110340523

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SoylentGreenLine · 719 weeks ago

I'm imagining tumbleweeds blowing across the tracks here... and slightly corpulent but well-dressed gentlemen falling to their knees and cursing the fates as their bodies succumb to dehydration and sun exposure. The walk to Twinbrook is long. The walk to freedom is longer.

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guest · 719 weeks ago

2 stations, 2 garages, 2 trains (first one i got on promptly broke down), 2 hours door to door.

wmata FAIL.

but at least i didn't have to hike back to a station. :)

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beema · 719 weeks ago

the zombie apocalypse has arrived

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Sam · 719 weeks ago

TRAAAAAAAAAAAAINS...... We want TRAAAAAAAAAINS....

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@mattheweide · 719 weeks ago

What the FUCK is this shit?

Refusing to ride Metro at all this summer, and hopping on my bike, have made me the fittest I have ever been.

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SoylentGreenLine · 719 weeks ago

Apparently this bomb threat was called in around 7:30am. It will never cease to amaze me how much people manage to accomplish before I even wake up!

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Mainland · 719 weeks ago

It's about a two mile walk.

I grabbed the MARC at Rockville instead of attempting to even enter the station, which at 8am was still open. What I suspect to be the train in question was heading toward Glenmont, stopped with the last 2 doors still on the platform. As the MARC pulled away other passengers said they saw a door or two open -- then I saw a group of about 20 or so people walking down the tracks. Surreal.

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Corresponding Toads · 719 weeks ago

Before the woman who made the bomb threat pleads insanity, I'd just like to point out that she knew exactly what she was doing.

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Todd · 719 weeks ago

Are those passengers?

That's like the scene from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles when the Amtrak (another great Federally subsidized transit authority) breaks down and the passengers have to walk through a cow pasture..

This is 3rd world stuff.

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santos · 719 weeks ago

having traveled extensively throughout the 3rd world, i can attest that at no time have i been subjected to a more inefficient public transportation system than metro.

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anon · 719 weeks ago

This would be a faster, more comfortable alternative to Metro for many.

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BradK · 719 weeks ago

anyone else notice that metroopensdoors was posting more than their normal roboto posts via twitter today in response to the incident?

Cheers Metro... well done (for once)