Unsuck DC Metro: Weekends

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Weekends

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guest · 718 weeks ago

LOL! So true. What a joke.

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@FixWMATA · 718 weeks ago

This is true. However, at least they're doing the work it takes to get the system back on track. Years of neglect take time to recover from and thankfully WMATA is communicating better about these delays so you can plan around them instead of being blind-sided by them. Planned maintenance now prevents emergency maintenance with no warning later.

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Anon · 718 weeks ago

C'mon have a sense of humor.

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@FixWMATA · 718 weeks ago

I actually thought this (and the other photoshopped images) was pretty funny! You didn't see me condemning them did you? Photoshop on delayed customers!

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Mary · 718 weeks ago

metro fact: you are here to pay to serve us

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@dstessel · 718 weeks ago

Ah Photoshop... Funny stuff. Though I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we're changing the way we do weekend track work so that we don't delay entire rail lines. When this new approach starts in August, weekend track work will get done safer, on a faster timeline, with fewer customers inconvenienced. Details here: http://bit.ly/lkrjln

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Mary · 718 weeks ago

Same old song and dance. We all know the unaffected stations will still claim the track work elsewhere is slowing things down. Just like 'passengers travelling between x and y should add 20 minutes' really means 'everyone on that line should add at least 30 minutes'.

The only change is the affected stations will be closed completely rather than even having a small chance of a train coming.

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M-Z · 718 weeks ago

Sorry, sir, but the sugar-coated spin won't fly. As someone who has worked jobs requiring commutes in both non-rush hour and on weekends and also tried to use Metro to attend events on weekends, closing stations and running shuttle buses is far more inconvenient than single-tracking. Single-tracking results in lower train frequencies and delays due to unusual dispatching. (i.e. Two trains sent in one direction before dispatching one in the other instead of even alternation.) Delays are bad. However, in all cases, delays are worse with shuttle buses due to the lower train frequencies, the necessity of physically transferring to a bus, waiting for the bus to depart (or arrive, hold, and then depart), waiting longer for a second shuttle if the first fills up, going back into a station, and waiting for a connecting train. It is a significantly degradation of service for the customers from the single-tracking which simply compensates for the inefficiencies in gradually completing work when the system is closed on weeknights or at minimal service levels on late weekend nights.

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VeggieTart · 718 weeks ago

Not to mention traffic on the roads between affected stations.

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Sam · 718 weeks ago

It's interesting that closing entire stations wouldn't result in a delay on the line according to Mr. Stessel. I can hear the announcement now, "Attention customers riding on or transferring to the red line: Due to scheduled track maintenance between Bethesda and Woodley Park, all customers should add an extra 60 minutes to their trip, but there are no delays."

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Corresponding Toads · 718 weeks ago

hmmm looks like D Stessel has evolved into... SUPER STESSEL!!

good to see you hunting the trolls, even on a Sunday. but yo this new approach is coming in August? that's like ~28,739 days away. I wonder what 4th of July weekend will be like... oh wait, it's gonna be a STR8-up NIGHTMARE

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RedLineSucks · 718 weeks ago

I don't know how that could possibly be less convenient than single tracking...as terrible as single tracking is - (I LOVED that it took me 60 minutes to get between Fort Totten and Silver Spring this weekend) - closing clusters of stations is SO MUCH WORSE. Metro has become incredibly unreliable on weekends- I don't even want to do anything because I know it will take many hours to travel anywhere on the system.

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RedLineROFL · 718 weeks ago

Come on folks, give @dstessel a break. At least he's trying to communicate, which is far better than the past, right? At least he's here making comments instead of just saying "screw unsuck". If we keep riding his ass, he might continue to post here. We all need to work together to turn Metro around, that's part of what unsuck is about, right? Pointing out problems on both sides.

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 718 weeks ago

I used Gimp in keeping with the Metro spirit.;)

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varun · 718 weeks ago

Not a chance. Paint would be the Metro way. :)

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@ChrisHowdy · 718 weeks ago

The true Metro spirit would have been drawing it in crayon (with various misspellings, of course) on a piece of notebook paper, taping it to the wall, and taking a cell phone picture.