Metro Closes Doors

June 26, 2008

Metro Sex Scandal

Filed under: Dumb people,Examiner,Metro Administration — Metro @ 9:26 pm

When you thought Metro could do no worse…

WASHINGTON - A Metro station manager and a Metro custodian were arrested on prostitution charges after an undercover transit police investigation found they arranged sexual trysts for money from inside the Dupont Circle Metro station.

At one point the employees used the Metro loudspeaker system to facilitate an illicit sexual arrangement, according to police who arrested the pair last week.

Sharon Waters, a Red Line station manager, told an undercover police officer at the Dupont Circle station June 4 that she could arrange meetings with local prostitutes for him, according to court documents.

The officer returned to the station at 11:45 p.m. June 11 and met with Waters, who told him she was organizing a “sex” party in the Washington area for a $100 cover charge, court records show.

Waters said she also could arrange for another, unidentified Metro station manager to meet the officer for sex, but that she couldn’t find her at that time, according to the affidavit.

Waters then used the Metro loudspeaker system to page Pam Goins, a Metro custodian who Waters said would be interested, and the officer and Waters went to the Farragut North Metro station to meet her, according to the documents.

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June 18, 2008

Metro’s ad people have not been fired.

Filed under: Metro Advertisements — Metro @ 1:49 am

Via Wonkette

According to this new Metro ad, the “average Regular” of this sort is a fat, stomping black lady with a truck who leaves Bigfoot-sized tar footprints all over her ghetto except when she’s sitting on a Metro train, serenaded by birds.

Dear Metro, you may not know, but it’s not actually true that mass transit’s emissions are less than if people took cars. Yeah…. check this out.

Yeah, “Dump the Pump” and increase our federal subsidy, because we can’t run a monopoly!

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May 29, 2008

Why.I.Hate.DC blogs about his metro experience

Filed under: Metro Operators,Other Metro observations — Metro @ 5:39 pm

Check it out.

Here’s a good excerpt:

Today, I was on the Red Line towards Farragut North. I had a primo standing spot by the door. You know those spots where you can lean on the plexiglass? I love those. Anyways, after every stop, there was a noticeable brake odor. Burnt rubber. This isn’t unusual so everyone ignored it.

Until Woodley Park. When the doors opened there, my fellow passengers and I noted that our train was on fire. Our car filled with smoke and, naturally, everyone had to be evacuated out. And waiting for another train in a smoke-filled Woodley Park is no picnic. By the time trains get there, they’re almost always already packed to the gills.

Bonus: Now I smell like burnt rubber and have a headache from all the smoke inhalation.

And has anyone else noticed that the trains on the Red Line are coming five minutes apart again? Argh

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May 8, 2008

The Metro Pope Ad

Filed under: Metro Administration — Metro @ 8:27 pm

Metro may have pulled it, but it found its way back to youtube!

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April 23, 2008

Metro didn’t fix it.

Filed under: Metro Administration — Metro @ 1:28 pm

The Union Station escalators are still backwards.

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April 10, 2008

Another Submitted Story

Filed under: Submitted Stories — Metro @ 6:39 pm

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!

As always, email us your stories.

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April 9, 2008

Ruhroh Metro…

Filed under: Metro Administration — Metro @ 9:57 pm

Metro Pulls Bobblehead Pope Web Ad

H/T to Chris for the story.

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April 2, 2008

It’s a monopoly, stupid

Filed under: Dumb people — Metro @ 1:02 pm

wtf letter

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

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March 27, 2008

“Finally!”

Filed under: Metro Passengers — Metro @ 12:44 pm

This morning, I had to endure the torture of watching this ginger lady take up an entire bench from King Street to L’Enfant Plaza. She had an airport bag with her, and an entire cake. I thought “maybe she’s getting off at Reagan”, so I waited to take her seat. I was wrong.

Then this tourist family got on at Crystal City. The car became very crowded, and you could tell the tourists were uneasy. As 1/2 of the car exited at L’Enfant, this little girl (no older than six) blurts out “finally!”

She said what we were all thinking and my end of the car chuckled with her.

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