Posts tagged 8 Car Trains
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Metro Reasons: Where did the Yellow and Green lines’ eight-car trains go?
The number of eight-car trains on the Yellow and Green lines has fallen in recent months, according to data from Metro analyzed by MetroHero. Both lines are budgeted for 100% eight-car trains, according to the agency’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget, but have been below that since the start of the Platform Improvement Project shutdown. Keep reading…
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WMATA actually did have a plan to recover ridership, and it’s everything advocates had been suggesting
This weekend, Faiz Siddiqui at the Washington Post reported that the WMATA Board had not seen, discussed, or devised a plan to reverse the dangerous drop in ridership on both the train and bus. Wednesday, he got just such a plan, a 26-page document which WMATA's planning and performance departments had created five months ago. Keep reading…
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Metro wants you to know when an 8-car train is coming
To make it clear when an approaching train will have eight cars rather than six, Metro has started displaying the number “8” in green on station display boards. The idea, presumably, is to space passengers more evenly along the platform. Will it work? Keep reading…
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Metro’s new stat shows how many 8-car trains may be missing
WMATA just unveiled its official stat for measuring how many rail cars are available. The number helps to show how the Silver Line brought down performance, why on-time performance isn’t where it should be, and why the new 7000-series cars are so important. An entire day’s operations hinges on how many railcars WMATA can use: Railcar availability is a key driver… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro madness and density duels
Skip the stop; Still too many short trains; Mort malfeasance?; Doesn’t want density; Putting out fires; Repect Rock Creek; The walking dead; Forget globally, fund locally; And the newest objection to bike lanes is. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Short-sighted
Congress slights Metro; Lost in translation; Purple path; Imminent deal; Unlimited parking; Housing queue; Heating up; Land, call, ride; Clean up, clean up; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Are you sure?
Crowded Metro; Purple rumors; Fewer tickets; What does it mean; Costly schools; Paperless; He wasn’t texting. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Exact or enact
Tax dump; Raising fare; Purchasing power; Door no more; Any alternative; Still free, less range; Identity crisis; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Riding and Walking
Fewer trains; Because they’re happy; Get around; Walk this way; Wider walkways; Rising rates; Waiting game; You’re the best; Historic NIMBY; Seek and you shall find. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trusty transportation
Transportation funding until May; Eight-car Blues; Silver doesn’t sparkle?; Lots of advice; Cabbies unionize; Food trucks have changed; Two new Corcoran proposals; Eastern Markets lease woes; And…. Keep reading…