The Union Station escalators are still backwards.

First, yesterday I was later-than-usual coming into work, so I was a little less familiar with the train patterns. Rather than catch a train at 7:10am, I was arriving at the platform of Mt. Vernon Square station (right north of Gallery Place) at 8:30. If there were ever to be a literal rush hour, I would think it to be between 8am and 9am. Not on Metro. I waited for over 25 minutes, finally catching a train at 9am. Half an hour wait in the peakest of peak times? Who comes up with this stuff? I live in central DC, right near the major crossing of 2 lines – likely the second most busy station in the entire system (Gallery Place). Instead, we have a half hour wait. I guess there was some error, but who would have ever known, thanks to the wonderful announcement system which leaves riders with the feeling that they just talked to the teacher from Charlie Brown. Absolutely ridiculous. Then, of course, the train is packed, as it has 30 minutes of people stacked on top of one another.

Then, on the ride home, catching a Blue/Orange line train from Rosslyn going into DC, for some reason two of the cars are not functioning. At 5pm on a weekday. Every single inch of every working car was bursting with people, yet Metro found it appropriate to use a defective train on this route. Genius.

-Thanks Chris!

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In reading this letter on the commute this morning, I almost shat my pants.