Another fun commute home on metro: it took twice as long as normal. First, the train ahead of ours had a door problem and had to be off-loaded, which took about ten minutes. So, in the tunnel we sat. But that was still better than being on the train being off-loaded!
Then, when we pulled into Metro Center, the platform was so full that I could barely get out of the train to head upstairs to the Dread Line platform. When I got up there, trains were due in eight, 18, and 20-something minutes. That'd be fine on a Sunday morning, but not at rush hour, where anything less than every three minutes just doesn't work.
By the time the Red train did arrive, the platform was so thick with people that it was impossible to move. We boarded the train, but left a crowd of people six deep behind. At Farragut, hundreds more left behind. At Dupont the operator couldn't get the doors shut and threatened to empty the train. Tack on another five minutes for that.
Just another symptom of a transit system that is starved of money and broken. When I read about what huge increases in ridership are on the way, well, it makes me laugh.
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