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• Another Metro Collision Today

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘Untitled/The Commuter’ courtesy of ‘Bogotron’ Metro released a press release stating that two trains collided very early this morning at the West Fall’s Church rail yard. Apparently it was an accident between a six-car train pulling into the rail yard and a parked train that was being cleaned and ...
  13 hours ago

• Yeah, Thanks, We Knew Already

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘”You Are Too Stupid”‘ courtesy of ’swilkes’ In case you were wondering, WMATA is officially delaying the January SmartBenefits program until 2011. Oh, wait, you already knew that? Really? When did you find out…wait, last week, you say? When GM John Catoe, Jr. announced it at a small budget forum? ...
  6 days ago

• The Friday Limerick Review

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  For walkers, this week was bad luck While crossing the street, two were struck Sure, fate is capricious But why not delicious? Heck yes, Id get hit by this truck It sure seems that Metros bemoaning The change that had riders all groaning With kiosks outmoded Make fares auto-loaded Not yet, though, cause Catoes ...
  1 week ago

• Metro Delays SmartBenefits Changes

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘I Hate You, Metro’ courtesy of ‘marciadc’ David Alpert over at GGW has the scoop – after much “discussion,” WMATA will be delaying the SmartBenefits changes until 2011. All that stuff about purses and changes? Yeah, not happening now for another 13 months. GM John Catoe, Jr., “master ...
  1 week ago

• And Now, A Metro Shower Curtain

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  How much do you love Metro? Sure, you have every commemorative farecard, you’ve got both the Nationals SmarTrip AND the Barack Obama SmarTrip card. You even dressed up like a Metro pylon for Halloween . But, do you have the shower curtain yet? No shower is complete without the Metro Shower Curtain . It’s an ...
  1 week ago

• Fed’s Takeover Move Triggered by Metro Crash

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘Wednesday Morning on the Metro’ courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’ The Washington Post wrote Sunday about the Obama administration’s intent to push Congress to implement a large change in how subway safety is regulated and enforced across the country by DOT. Currently, the feds really have no power to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Talkin’ Transit: Same Old, Same Old

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘Service Advisory’ courtesy of ‘MattHurst’ WMATA quietly announced last night it has lifted a long-standing ban on allowing independent safety monitors access to Metro tracks. Metro board Chairman Jim Graham met with WMATA higher-ups yesterday and it had some result, supposedly. Late Tuesday, WMATA ...
  2 weeks ago

• DC Mythbusting: Metro’s Most Crowded

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘good morning.’ courtesy of ‘volcanojw’ DC has a great Metro system: it’s (generally) reliable, clean, fast, and connects many major destinations in the city.  But we love to complain about our commutes– being crammed like sardines on the train, being stuck in Metro stations so full that you ...
  2 weeks ago

• WMATA Changes Mind – AGAIN

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ So it’s looking like Metro GM Catoe is backing off the planned SmartBenefits changes that WMATA originally announced last month. Apparently WMATA’s had a lot of questions tossed at them about the changes and how highly screwed up it is . During his noontime ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Friday Limerick Review

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Today we introduce Hannah Neprash of districtlimerick.com , who will write regularly on D.C. news and politics—in limerick form. Election week left some aghast From last year, the difference was vast A bell-weather? nope Creigh Deeds had no hope Before the first ballot was cast The hearing for marriage rights ...
  3 weeks ago

• New SmarTrip reload locations

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘NO SMARTRIP -6480′ courtesy of ‘Joe Tresh’ We still don’t have online loading but WMATA has announced the addition of 42 more SmarTrip purchase & reload locations . They have a listing of all the locations on their website but continue not to map the locations. Well, I grabbed the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Metro Delays This Weekend

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  Metro Delays Metro is planning track work this weekend that will affect the Orange, Blue, and Yellow lines .  If you’re traveling on the Orange line between Cheverly and Stadium-Armory, add half an hour to your trip because they’re single-tracking.  On the Blue line, add half an hour of travel time to your ...
  3 weeks ago

• DC Metro extending Green Line to Fort Meade?

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 145
  Michael Dresser mentions this: The proposal being batted around in Prince George’s would take the Green Line as far north as Route 32 near Savage before it would curve east toward Fort Meade and Odenton. That would make it a lot easier to get to Washington via Metro without getting mixed up in traffic jams. He ...
  3 weeks ago

• $14M Power Distribution Unit Replacement?

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘wheat pennies bw’ courtesy of ‘christaki’ The root cause of yesterday’s Metro failure was the death of a 27-year old Power Distribution Unit (be sure to click through for the pictures of what was left… (read yesterday’s interview with Chuck Goolsbee to get more detail as to what these do), ...
  3 weeks ago

• WMATA Backpedals on SmartBenefits Changes

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘Newspapers Newspapers Newspapers’ courtesy of ’staceyviera’ With the change in SmartBenefits (ie, MetroChecks) looming large, and confusion running rampant concerning the potential changes, Greater Greater Washington reports that some employers are going to have the option to stay as it stands ...
  3 weeks ago

• DC’s Digitial Downer

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 490
  Our grandparents worried about "The Bomb." We live with the "Computer Glitch." Three digital meltdowns affecting the quality of l[...]
  3 weeks ago

• The WMATA Single Point of Failure? Yes, But…

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ This morning’s power failure at Metro’s data center that took their PA system, payment processors, NextBus and other non-critical services offline this morning. Specifically, a power distribution unit (PDU) at their datacenter failed, which took offline a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Power Outage Causing Metro Issues

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  Update: WMATA is slowly bringing back services. Metrobus fareboxes and bus radios are back in operation, MetroAccess dispatch and online reservations are working, and this morning I heard a public address system test. More info from this WMATA release. WMATA’s communications systems suffered a major power ...
  3 weeks ago

• WMATA vs SEPTA

  
  Anything! — Authority: 124
  The hotel in Philly was 4 miles from the venue so my friend C and I knew wed be using public transit (or cab) to get to the venue. So I started perusing the PJ fanboards to find out what was the best option. And promptly came across a post about SEPTA getting ready for a walkout ...Zoinks!Add to that Game 3 of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Five Favorites: Metro Stations

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 607
  ‘Woodley Station’ courtesy of ‘Tyrannous’ Hi, and welcome to a new feature called Five Favorites.  Our reader Jay suggested ranking favorite places in DC, and I’m going to start with five favorite Metro stations.  These are stations that are the best examples of vibrant, walkable, urban, mixed-use ...
  4 weeks ago

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