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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Feb 19 18:48:24 2012, in response to Re: WMATA: 7k prototype car pictures, posted by randyo on Sun Feb 19 18:01:01 2012. When I visited the WMATA offices, it seemed that many of the old timers in the schedule office were left over from the old DC Transit days and were treating the 6 and 8 car metro trains the same way that they treated the buses and streetcars in terms of scheduling and crewing.That must have been a long time ago as most of the people that worked for DC Transit retired more the 25 year ago, but I digress. It should be noted that the WMATA operational model evolved from the surface transit model only because WMATA acquired surface transit operations from the private operators on 01 14 1973 and 04 04 1973. WMATA broke ground on the construction of the first segment of metrorail on 12 09 1969. It was envisioned prior to the decision to acquire the private bus companies that WMATA would operate using a operational model similar to bart. Bart doesn't have a surface transit operation. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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