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Posted by WillD on Wed Mar 25 03:57:50 2015, in response to Re: WMATA Observations, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Mar 25 03:44:01 2015. Snicker, you'd never last a day in London or Berlin. :-)London's just a disaster, but at least in Berlin there aren't fare gates to complicate the process of exiting the station if you've made the honest mistake of overriding your ticket and being a bit short on cash. Just gotta avoid being Kontrolled before you exit the station. Hell, I think with the exception of Boston, nearly every system out accelerates NYCTA, and that includes London... Don't NJT and SEPTA's EMU out-accelerate NYCT's stock? Or maybe they both do around 2mph/s. FWIW, I haven't noticed in my previous trips that the escalators at WMATA were any slower than NYCTA's escalators. Mind you, I tend to just walk up the escalators unless I'm tired. IMHO the reliance on escalators is the biggest problem with WMATA's station. More so than the poor lighting. A few escalators out of service with driveshaft or brake problems requiring the escalator to be barricaded and their vertical circulation goes to complete crap. I had the misfortune of being stuck on the platform at Metro Center when two of the escalators were barricaded. There had to be two trainloads of passengers attempting to exit the station. Some more stairs would be a very good thing. |
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