Via: @lizessley @wmata employee helping elderly woman down stopped escalator #Metro #inaug2013 pic.twitter.com/DxKIawm1
Inauguration is Metro's Christmas, New Year's, Chanukah and Kwanzaa all rolled into one day, and it comes only once every four years.
Last time around, they moved a record number of people and gave themselves high marks. They reminded us about it for about three years.
This year, if early guestimates are to be believed, Metro carried about a third fewer people than 2009. (Some say it was 50 percent lower.) Knowing how Metro budgets, they likely anticipated double 2009 levels.
Twitter feedback was fairly mixed, and during a simultaneous signal problem on the Red Line, a dead train on the Orange Line and several core stations being unexpectedly shut down, for a while there, Metro teetered on the brink of total meltdown.
Inauguration is Metro's Christmas, New Year's, Chanukah and Kwanzaa all rolled into one day, and it comes only once every four years.
Last time around, they moved a record number of people and gave themselves high marks. They reminded us about it for about three years.
This year, if early guestimates are to be believed, Metro carried about a third fewer people than 2009. (Some say it was 50 percent lower.) Knowing how Metro budgets, they likely anticipated double 2009 levels.
Twitter feedback was fairly mixed, and during a simultaneous signal problem on the Red Line, a dead train on the Orange Line and several core stations being unexpectedly shut down, for a while there, Metro teetered on the brink of total meltdown.
Congrats @wmata on a successful day. Wish everyday was like this....
— Matt O'Brien (@OBrien1_Matthew) January 21, 2013
@wmata failed horribly today...2 hour wait to get into the metro.. #dc #metro #metroclosesdoors
— Britt(@bwoods624) January 21, 2013
Metro charged peak fares from 4 a.m. til 9 p.m., and in an informal poll of friends and coworkers yesterday, the most common reactions to that were "gouging" and "a racket." While they moved less people that $1 paper farecard surcharge will likely increase Metro's take.
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