Unsuck DC Metro: These Metro Songs are Amazing

Friday, October 18, 2013

These Metro Songs are Amazing

Metro is testing three safety songs.

They're pretty incredible.

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Guest · 596 weeks ago

Does the "Eastern Motors" jingle finally have competition?

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BetU2 · 595 weeks ago

TOO many words and leave out the music.

The message is what is soooo important.

Slow down the themes, clarify the message, leave out the music background and have someone sing the simple messages.

Are these going to be played on the platforms? If so, they would not be understood.

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hrhkingfridayxiii · 596 weeks ago

It's not enough that they try to maim people with buses and crappy trains but now through music? Seriously though... this exemplifies the problem with Metro's world view. They'll spend money putting out ads that blame customers for delays and safety issues rather than admit they're the source of the system's failture. I think these jingles are more about pushing bizzare Orwellian propaganda than anything else.

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@schroedinger_ · 595 weeks ago

Here's a perfect example: I'd be willing to bet money that the issue with people crowding the doors and not moving to the center of the cars is directly and causally related to the issue of the drivers keeping the doors open for blatantly inadequate amounts of time. Why would you move to the center of the car when you know that means risking having the doors closed on you before you can get off, and getting trapped until the next stop (which could be really far away if you're outside the core)?

I remember over the summer I was on a GL train after a weekend Nats game. Our train got offloaded onto an already dangerously crowded platform at Gallery Place, due to door problems. Why did we have door problems? Because someone was forced to hold the door because, I do not exaggerate, the conductor thought it was appropriate to hold the doors open for all of fifteen seconds at a major transfer station with a packed-to-the-gills train.

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ddddda · 595 weeks ago

I've certainly seen people do dangerous and/or stupid things, but socially-delivered justice often works on them, and if it doesn't, some stupid jingle is probably not going to help. You know who's unjustifiably holding the doors, not holding on inside the train, not letting people off, etc.? Largely tourists. They're not going to hear these, since they'll likely be played on local media. Sure, locals run for trains, but I've never seen one biff while doing it. I have, however, seen some tourists children dragged right onto their face by parents running for the train. No matter how hard you try, you can't teach people to be sane, coordinated, or have a modicum of courtesy. And it's even more impossible with people whose daily life involves driving everywhere in their whale of an SUV.

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visitor · 595 weeks ago

HA in China transit systems they have 'pushers' who actually use parts of their folded arms to push people on to the trains and pack them in tighter....
.....saw this on TV. Could you imagine the fights this would start in DC.MD & VA.

There are solutions to overcrowding but perhaps the 'powers that be' do not want to send in an empty train at certain locations to ease the overcrowding safety problems.

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NoNo · 596 weeks ago

Good that there is so few metros on the weekend, because if I had to hear that "noise" during my usual 24 minutes wait, I would jump under the first metro arriving...

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@JimLCunningham · 596 weeks ago

These are just crying out for some spoofs. Oooooooh. Just wait.

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S. Gidley · 596 weeks ago

I... is this serious? Someone please tell me this is a joke. Please? Pretty please?

Now we know what the techno music was! Between the heavy bass line, the unintelligible lyrics, and the fact that you know they'll be playing them on the Metro's stellar speaker system it will sound just like that. All the riders will need is some flashing strobe lights, too tight clothing, and some glow stick and Metro rave is on!

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Daily Rider · 596 weeks ago

If these are real, how much was spent on them?

Also, will there be additional styles aimed at riders who prefer other kinds of music?

Some low-down blues would seem most appropriate.

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M-Z · 596 weeks ago

They're surprisingly conservative with the flow of the lyrics. I'd expect something more wordy along the lines of the "Stepbacktoallowcustomerstoexit Shuffle" or a half-assed dub step mashup of Janet Napolitano's never-ending "See it, say it, or I'll fondle your naughty bits" spiels.

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anon · 595 weeks ago

holy god, they're kidding, right?!

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visitor · 595 weeks ago

Ridiculous!
Spend the money on training their employees

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UnSuck Fan · 595 weeks ago

And fixing everything too!

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B10C · 593 weeks ago

Aren't these the same songs that were used on Pandora in Spring 2013? These aren't that new at all. IDK what the purpose of the songs are, but as far as I know, they have disappeared from Pandora as I haven't heard them in a while.
http://storify.com/FixWMATA/wmata-s-pandora-jingl...

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visitor · 592 weeks ago

...for crying out loud.... a sad day when you have to be entertained due to poor transit performance so we forget about the delays and our commute. Aren't we being tricked enough as riders?

Secondly, why is this blog delayed? Did the union put a gag order on the blog writers?