A reader reports:
“Smoke in tunnels, fare hikes, and now this? Metro- I’m done with you!!!”
Happy Halloween!!
Transit
Photo by PoPville flickr user nevermindtheend
From WMATA:
“Reconstruction of the Metrorail system will continue over the weekend of October 30 – November 1 with service adjustments on all six lines beginning at 10:00 p.m. Friday and continuing through system closing on Sunday.
This weekend, trains will operate as follows:
Red Line trains will operate every 18 minutes.
Yellow Line trains will operate every 24 between Huntington and Mt. Vernon Sq only.
Green Line trains will operate every 16 minutes on Saturday only, regular weekend intervals on Sunday.
Orange, Silver and Blue line trains will operate every 24 minutes.
Metrorail late-night service info for end of Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time will end at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1. At that time, clocks will “fall back” to 1 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
Metrorail will remain open until its normal closing time of 3 a.m. “new time” (Eastern Standard Time).”
Photo by PoPville flickr user Messay Shoakena
You can spot John on the Red Line commuting between Brookland and Bethesda. “MetroHaikuDC‘s daily transit musings are brightening DC’s metro tunnels, 17 syllables at a time. I started writing a haiku a day on my 40 minute daily train ride to and from work. It passes the time and keeps things lighthearted in some of the metro’s darkest times.”
Please enjoy Unwanted DJ this week:
His headphones booming
Today we’re all listening
To this guy’s music
Thanks to a reader for sending: “Just noticed this displayed on the 43 bus I was waiting for. Yay for communication of information!”
Photo by PoPville flickr user Miki J.
From DDOT:
“The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will temporarily close single lanes on the following roadways while conducting critical bridge inspections beginning Monday, October 26, 2015, and continuing until Friday, October 30, 2015, between 10 am and 3 pm, weather permitting. The closures are necessary for DDOT to perform a series of routine, annual bridge and tunnel safety inspections.
The lane closures will alternate and will be implemented sequentially. The following closures will occur: (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user wolfpackWX
From WMATA:
“Two Metro employees are being called heroes this weekend after subduing a robbery suspect armed with a loaded semiautomatic handgun aboard a Green Line train.
The incident began shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday when the victim, an adult male, was approached by the suspect at Anacostia Station. The suspect flashed a gun in his waistband and demanded the victim’s money. The victim complied and handed over approximately $40.
The suspect then boarded a northbound Green Line train where he got into an altercation with other passengers. Two Metro Rail Operations employees–one male and one female–were riding aboard the train, noticed the altercation and attempted to intervene. After a struggle, the male employee was able to restrain the suspect by pinning him to the floor of the railcar while the female employee radioed the Rail Operations Control Center to dispatch Metro Transit Police.
During the physical altercation, the male employee noticed that the suspect was reaching in his jacket pocket. The employee asked the suspect, “Do you have a gun?” When the suspect responded “yes,” the employee grabbed the weapon and placed it out of the suspect’s reach on the floor of the train. (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user Jim Havard
From WMATA:
“Reconstruction of the Metrorail system will continue over the weekend of October 23-24 with service adjustments on five of six lines beginning at 10:00 p.m. Friday and continuing through system closing on Saturday.
Trains will operate as follows:
Yellow Line trains operate regular Saturday schedule between Huntington and Mt. Vernon Sq only
Red Line trains will operate every 18 minutes.
Green Line trains will operate every 16 minutes.
Orange, Silver and Blue line trains will operate every 26 minutes.
There will be no track work on Sunday, trains operate at regular service frequencies.
5AM Opening Sunday for Marine Corps Marathon
Metrorail will open two hours early, at 5 a.m., on Sunday, October 25, for customers traveling to the Marine Corps Marathon. The closest Metro stop to the start of the race is Pentagon on the Blue and Yellow lines. Riders may want to consider using Pentagon City as an alternate station due to potential crowding at Pentagon.”
You can see a map of the route here.
Photo by PoPville flickr user Eric P.
“Dear PoPville,
This isn’t the most exciting news on the planet, but does involve something that could torpedo WMATA’s budget.
ADP, which a lot of private sector companies use to handle employee benefits, sent a notification out yesterday that they will no longer support commuter spending accounts starting in 2016. This means that employees can’t have money taken out of their paychecks pretax and then used to pay for bus and train use. ADP hasn’t been able to work with WMATA on fixing this, so the IRS is essentially shutting it down.
This is not only going to mess up the Metro budget, but is going to wind up costing commuters more money since they can’t use pretax funds.
Here’s the email that ADP sent:
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Commuter Spending Accounts in the Washington, DC Area (more…)
Shamik reports:
“count ’em 2 bus issues @ 15th and Columbia. Traffic blocked on Columbia WB, started back up at 15th NB. Circulator broke down on Columbia, H3 hit a pick up on 15th. “H” busses being diverted at 14th and Columbia. Plus side-quiet walk”