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Posted by Sand Box John on Wed Apr 17 10:28:47 2019, in response to Re: PHOTOS: OLD MAIN LINE, posted by Jersey Mike on Wed Apr 17 07:28:16 2019. The METROs original sin was that it was built primarily to look nice working on the assumption that it would be a "lightly" used showpiece for the nation's capitol. Lightly meaning something more like commuter rail than an urban subway.If the fleet was large enough to allow for closer headways the surges from discharging passengers would be more evenly distributed. It would have also been better if one of the three escalators in the two set of escalators between the upper and lower levels was turned 180 degrees. The stairs that were added later should been configured the same. The combined bus and rail system was predicted to carry a million passengers a day by 1980. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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