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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Fri Jul 2 14:44:26 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jul 2 14:10:59 2010. I have to agree that service on the Green/Yellow sucks. I have waited on a train at Gallery Place many times with displayed arrival times of "18 minutes" or more in the middle of a business day. Clearly there had not been a train for some time, and there were no announcements of delays on the line. I don't take G/Y often, maybe a few times a month every few months, but that my experience has been consistent strongly suggests need for improvement. Evening and weekend service is pretty lousy as well. Whenever I go over to Pentagon City, I always get there faster using the Blue instead of Yellow.Back at Christmas a friend and I decided to prove it. I got off at Metro and took Blue, he went on to Gallery for Yellow. The board gave 16 minutes for the next Yellow, I had a 14 minute wait for the Blue. I got there 15 minutes before he did. His train didn't arrive at Gallery for 20 minutes and then just sat there with no explanation for like another 10. There wasn't any work being done that weekend or indication of workers on the tracks for something unexpected, either. Then it took its sweet time getting to L'Enfant. There could be any number of legit explanations for why it took so long, but there's no excuse for no announcements of any kind. And, I have had similar experiences on the Yellow between downtown and Virginia many times. |
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