Remember a while back when WMATA said that everyone’s bags and whatever they were bringing into metro stations was subject to search? Well, they’re doing it again…or perhaps, actually doing it for the first time – or so they say. Two years ago, Metro announced that it was going to start random bag searches, but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transit’
10 Dec
64 Bus Hits Car
About 45 minutes ago, the 64 bus, headed towards Federal Triangle, hit a small car in the bus lane off 11th St. The driver has yet to get out of the car, and it doesn’t look like a really high speed impact (I didn’t actually see it while it was occurring) but with something as [...]
5 Mar
Pentagon Shooting
UPDATE: Lower level bus bay at Pentagon is back up. Regional transit (anything that’s not Metro bus, basically) will still be at Pentagon City. Pentagon Metrorail station, Pentagon Transit Center reopen Metrobuses servicing lower level bus bays at Pentagon, other bus providers still at Pentagon City The Pentagon Metrorail station and the lower level of [...]
12 Feb
And now, for your epic weekly disaster…
Today marks the first day of what can only be referred to as “reverse Snowmageddon”. Rather than fleeing the city in a panic back out to the suburbs, commuters from Maryland and Virginia flooded into the city, especially clogging roads like 495-N and I-66 E. What would normally have been a 30-45 minute commute turned [...]
10 Feb
snomg v 2.0
Most of you are probably hanging out at home today, or at least enjoying the snow (blizzard?) while it’s still snomg’ing outside. New photos of what’s going on out there, and a few from the last snowpocalypse… More later…
2 Feb
On the Subject of Snow
For an area that is typically unequipped and not accustomed to a substantial (subjective term, in this case, I know) amount of snowfall, we seem to be getting a lot of it. You’d think that with all the practice we’re being consistently given by the somewhat regular snowfall that we’d be able to actually deal [...]
23 Jan
Losing an ID on a Metro Bus: The Journey of My ID Badge
Like many other Washingtonians, I have a badge reel clip and a badge holder. It’s pretty much glued to my hip pocket but this time, it managed to wriggle itself loose from my pants and go on a little journey of its own. Now, this is not the first time this has happened – a [...]
6 Jan
A Rather Unexpected Metro Experience
As many of you are probably aware, the Orange Line has been an absolute mess for the past few days – moreso than usual. So much so, in fact, that it has been either very difficult or even impossible to board the train at all at stations like Rosslyn and Courthouse, even in the afternoon. [...]
18 Dec
SNOWNOZ!
Have you gone to the store yet to stock up on toilet paper, milk and assorted useless stuff you don’t need? What about GameStop? Yes? Then you’re probably a native. Chances are that, if you’ve grown up in this region, you react to snow kind of like Cookie Monster when he gets a cookie. Seriously, [...]
