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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Thu Jul 1 10:28:45 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Forest Glen on Wed Jun 30 12:03:32 2010. I concur. I lived through the NYC subway hell of the 1970s and 80s. In any month back then, I lost more time to delays than I have all told over the 19 years I have lived here.Metro is handicapped by a lack of capacity versus phenomenal growth in ridership. When the system was designed 50 years ago, it was intended to be nothing more than a fancy shuttle system to bring government workers to and from downtown. Period. No one at the time envisioned or considered the transformation of the District from a sleepy, company town to a major destination city at the center of a major metropolitan area. So Metro ended up as a two-track system with no means of handling more trains to accommodate the dramatically higher ridership. Getting ATO/ATC back up and running will certainly help somewhat for the short term. (And WTF is it that after all this time Metro's TOs can't figure out how to run a train smoothly in manual? NYC did it for decades before Metro opened.) What is really needed, though, is more capacity in the form of both heavy and light rail to support existing routes, as well as new routes that enable "crosstown" (both E-W and N-S) travel that isn't via downtown. |
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