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Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Oct 16 23:10:31 2016, in response to Re: Washington Metro criticized for not extending hours last night due to Nationals Game, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sun Oct 16 22:05:56 2016. My analysis is that BART and WMATA deliberately ignored most of the lessons from NYC and Chicago. When the IND was built,, they planned for bigger crowds, allowed for (sadly) never built branches, and designed in flexibility which allows reroutes in emergencies or major changes in ridership patterns.BART built stations w/inadequate stairs/escalators/faregates which retard passenger flow. Both systems deployed escalators as if rain (snow in DC's case) had been abolished which costs millions in otherwise un-necessary repairs. The issue with escalators in WMATA's case had to do with their decision to allow competitive bidding on contracts for later segments. The initial competitive escalator bid had multi segment options in it and went to Westinghouse. Many of those Westinghouse escalator are still in use to this day. Most of the stuff that's giving WMATA problems today was from later vendors. As example the east entrance escalator at Georgia Avenue - Petworth installed in 1999 are being replaced as I right this. The Westinghouse escalators in the north entrance of Dupont Circle were installed in 1976 and WMATA has made no announcements as to when they might be replaced. The same applies to the Westinghouse escalators at Rosslyn installed the same year. WMATA paid a premium price for those Westinghouse escalators that had patented technology in them. Most are sill running reasonably reliably well past the expected end of their service life. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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