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Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Oct 16 18:18:08 2016, in response to Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game, posted by andy on Fri Oct 14 18:46:57 2016. For those of you who forget, as Sand Box John said elsewhere in this thread, typically event organizers have to pay for expanded service, in this case the Nationals. The Nationals have refused to pay for such expansions of service, most notably when the team made the playoffs in 2012 and 2014. Third parties (Groupon and American University IINM) offered to pay to cover the extended service if necessary. The Wizards, Capitals, and Redskins all have paid the fees to expand service when WMATA provided the option to do so. I've seen no indication that the Nationals were going to pay this time around if WMATA agreed to extend service for the game.Instead of criticizing Metro for closing at midnight, people should criticize MLB for having 9 inning playoff games that take over 4 hours to complete and start at 8 PM local time. The game ended that night at about 12:30 AM. Regular season games start at 7, start the playoff games then too as well. |
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