Cooking_with_MREs

Cooking_with_MREs OP t1_jebjf21 wrote

Reply to comment by walkallover1991 in If You Could Fix One Tiny Thing about Metro. . . [Serious] by Cooking_with_MREs

>get the PA system in stations to call out the destination/line of approaching trains

So, you mean something like "train approaching heading toward Glenmont" something like that? That seems kind of redundant b/c the trains (7ks at least) announce that already -- and the older trains have drivers that. . . kind of do that.

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Cooking_with_MREs OP t1_jeajv9f wrote

Reply to comment by muellman in If You Could Fix One Tiny Thing about Metro. . . [Serious] by Cooking_with_MREs

>much of what they do doesn't get disseminated around.

I get this sense too as a customer. WMATA is a massive tri-jurisdiction system, and folks in administration* don't seem to have much of an idea of what workers and customers do day to day in the system.

Having a cool acronym for Better Bus Service (BBS) or Improved Lighting Initiative (ILI) or "increasing cleanliness by 85% systemwide" doesn't mean jack to customers who wait 15 minutes instead of 20 for the next bus, or see burnt out bulbs all over the system, or dirty elevators every day.

* The one exception to admin issues would be Randy Clarke and one of the Commissioners (I don't recall her name) who seem to actually be using and in the system every day.

I worked at Wal-Mart and as horrible as that company is department managers were out in the store every day if only for an early-morning walk-through. How many admins can say they are in or use the system every day?

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Cooking_with_MREs t1_je5dzun wrote

Reply to The Silver Line to Dulles is a bigger deal than I thought it would be by MrMoustachio55

>and sat/listened to a podcast watching the train scoot through NOVA.

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That's the biggest plus for me (of Metro in general). I don't have to deal with the stress and headache of other drivers. I don't have to think about where I'm going (other than the station), I don't have to worry about turns, getting in an accident, or bad weather.

Yeah, it might take a bit longer to Metro to Dulles vs. driving, but I lived in East Tennessee for ten years. Your options were fly out of Knoxville and pay a LOT of money, fly out of Chattanooga and drive an extra 1.5 hours, or get a cheap flight from Atlanta but die in Atlanta traffic. All of which included parking at the Airport.

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