Unsuck DC Metro: Tres Equis

Friday, November 18, 2011

Tres Equis

"I don't always close the airport station, but when I do, I prefer the weekend before a major holiday."

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DC Denizen · 696 weeks ago

Well played.

As an aside, is Unsuck going to apply for the Deputy Spokesperson job? Because I think Unsuck would be a wonderful addition to the Metro PR staff...

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UnSuck Fan · 696 weeks ago

As much as most of us on this blog would like to see UnSuck as Deputy Spokesperson, more than just Hell would have to freeze over!

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DC Denizen · 696 weeks ago

We need someone on the inside.

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former employee · 696 weeks ago

The job is already taken by a family member or friend. Just had to be posted for the HR to cover their asses. And besides that, Unsuck has morals. You have to compromise your morals for a paycheck at Metro....

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Sizzle · 696 weeks ago

I didn't even think of that. Almost laughable how bad at planning they are.

Morons.

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Anon · 696 weeks ago

Dumb and Dumber are in charge and it is time to kick out the bums and replace them with educated planners!

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Nick · 696 weeks ago

Lol I am flying out of DCA on Sunday.

When I heard about this, I was totally baffled. We are going away for the whole week, and I'm sure A FEW other people are too.

However, our flight leaves at 7AM, so metro would have been of no use anyway. <3 metro!

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Kara · 696 weeks ago

I was struck by disbelief when I heard that they were doing that. Who thought closing the national stop on the weekend that starts a week a lot of people leave the area for was at all a good idea?

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Annonny · 696 weeks ago

Kara don't be so sad! Employees at metro have to read the Newspaper to know what is going on most of the time!

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Andrew · 696 weeks ago

This is a joke, right? Surely they can't be this oblivious. Oy gevalt.

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hrh king friday 13 · 696 weeks ago

Only if we could find a way to harness the stupid of Metro as a renewable energy source.

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Soylent Green Line · 696 weeks ago

You win the internet with that comment.

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 696 weeks ago

Hahaha!

Inexhaustible, too!

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@VeggieTart · 696 weeks ago

This isn't the first time they've done this. My boyfriend and I were flying back to DCA a couple years ago on a holiday weekend (I think it was Labor Day), and they'd had the National Airport station closed. We had to catch the shuttle to the Pentagon station and take the Metro from there.

I understand that they have to do track work that necessitates closing the airport station, but how about doing it on a weekend that few people get off, like Columbus Day, MLK Day, or Presidents' Day, when people are less likely to be flying? Oh, wait. Never mind. That would make sense.

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GDopplerXT · 696 weeks ago

I don't understand the problem. It's not as if most people who leave town for Thanksgiving leave the weekend before. Closing it the weekend *following* Thanksgiving would have been stupid.

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Guest · 696 weeks ago

Mr. Stessel,

Did you ride Metro today? Tons of people with luggage. The holiday travel surge starts now.

I'd say about half of the people where I work are off all next week, largely because it's a great week to burn "use or lose" time off.

I will grant you one point: it would have been stupidER to do it next weekend.

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GDopplerXT · 696 weeks ago

I did ride Metro today (yellow line towards National Airport, in fact), and I did not see "tons of people with luggage" or any evidence of a "holiday travel surge". I have a job too (not with WMATA, you'll be disappointed to hear) and none of my colleagues are off all next week.

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DCRider · 696 weeks ago

Most Burger King folks only get half a day on Wednesday...

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isol93 · 696 weeks ago

I rode Metro to and from Rosslyn yesterday, and there were TONS of people with luggage, blocking escalators

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guest · 696 weeks ago

woman in the next office is already gone.

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Ever and Anon · 696 weeks ago

As sad as the entire situaton is, that is one hilarious photo!!!

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Metro Yo! · 696 weeks ago

Hi friends. On behalf of Metro, where we strive to provide you with the worse service you could possibly imagine, all the while attempting to gently give it to you in the anus when we think youre not paying attention, the unfortunate decision to close the Ronald Reganomics East Coast Nationals International Airport station was not made lightly. While we are aware that some of you may be employed by companies that do not allow unlimited hours of overtime, and thus may be taking this week off, this is the last chance for many of our employees to rack up overtime that will be provided in the paychecks prior to the busy holiday shopping season. While it may have caused you some slight inconvienience, this closure is sure to provide our employees with the necessary means ("extra benjamins") to purchase the 65 inch t.v.'s and spinner rims they have longed for much of the year.

If you had planned to utilize the Metro rail system this weekend to get to the airport, we sincerely appologize that we cannot take your money, and advise you to donate any spare funds to the all new C.R.E.A.M fund.

Happy Trails!

And remember, Cash Rules Everything Around Me(tro), dollar dollar bills yall.

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Abel Magwitch · 696 weeks ago

Don't forget there is also a home Redskins game this weekend.And of course, the stop for FedEx Field is on the Blue Line. So for those of you planning on getting on the Blue Line before Pentagon City.....enjoy your shuttle bus.

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Anon · 696 weeks ago

Funny - I was just going to post about that as well!

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Dr. Sano · 696 weeks ago

Well, considering how bad the Redskins have been, the shuttle bus will probably feel like a godsend compared to how we're gonna do against the Cowboys. Either that, or it'll be like rubbing salt in the wound.

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Kathryn · 696 weeks ago

Love it!

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Guest · 696 weeks ago

So they should just NOT do the station/track work improvements required in that area so all the special little travelers can Metro to the airport??? You people would be the same group complaining if they didn't close the station...to do the work...to make Metro not suck quite as much too! Ever heard of cabs, buses, Super Shuttles, and parking lots at the airport? They do exist, and probably won't kill anyone having to travel using those methods for the whopping TWO DAYS of station closures! Find something better to worry about, and before some ahole tries to go there, I am NOT employed by Metro.

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@VeggieTart · 696 weeks ago

No, you idiot, they should avoid track work during one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. People do travel the week before and the week after Thanksgiving, in case you haven't noticed. If they need a three-day weekend, why not MLK day weekend? Presidents Day weekend? Columbus Day weekend? Fewer people travel then, so closing an airport station would do less damage than closing it around Thanksgiving.

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Guest · 696 weeks ago

Unsuck your stories and information are incredible and unfathomable how they select these closures.
What are we as a group going to do about these folks?

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rrrrrrrrrrrr · 696 weeks ago

I agree with "Guest" that there are other ways to get to the airport other than metro. I recently returned from London and Paris who both have metro systems at least twice as large as ours. Ours is an itty bitty system in comparison. But my observation was that London did their maintenance stuff at night. Paris--not sure when they did their maintenance (if ever), but there were very few delays. We were in both systems during the height of rush hour and jammed in with everyone else. Paris' metro had an "odeur" that I'm thankful is not omnipresent in DC's metro.