I was planning on driving in tomorrow as is, but since I’ve been given the option to take the day off I am. I’m actually ok with the idea of shutting down the Metro to make sure everything is working properly. It might screw up one day, but better one day then having even more problems.
It’s supposed to be a nice day tomorrow so I’ll be taking the motorcycle and going the other way.
I would be extremely suspicious if they inspect all the jumper cables and determine that 100% of them are fine and everything can go back to normal on Thursday morning. There’s just no way.
Yeah, I agree. (Even though I don’t have a dog in this fight, since I’m nowhere near Washington.)
But to me, something smells funny. I’m guessing that somebody knows something that would cause panic if the general public ever found out.
The article says thatover the past 2 years, there have been 2 fires. Okay,thats a serious issue, and of course it requires inspections. But why shut down the entire city?
Why not wait till the weekend? Or do the work at night?
There must be something critical about to explode, and somebody is probably shitting his pants till it gets fixed.
We’re about to go into the Cherry Blossom Festival, which brings a ridiculous number of tourists to the area. Add in spring break, and the shutdown makes sense- another incident like the one Monday or the deadly fire in January would be a PR nightmare.
Then there’s this article from December: The Infuriating History of How Metro Got So Bad.
I’m hoping this drives home (heh) to a lot of people just how useful and valuable public rail is, even to those who don’t personally ride it, and how we should be funding it much better.
Any of you drive this morning? I’m wondering how bad the roads were.
I’m flying into DCA in a few hours. We’ll see how the traxi situation works out.
WTOP says the system is expected to open at 5 AM. WMATA isn’t yet saying much but there has been word about a big mass of wiring that had been scheduled to be replaced nine months ago either wasn’t or was and half-assed.
I drove down 270 this morning, and got up early to avoid the expected traffic. Even at that time–6:30-45 am–it was heavier than usual and clogged up at a couple of the exits/onramps. But I don’t think it took me more than 10 minutes longer than normal.
The office was mostly empty all day, which was weird since Wednesday is the day when most of the people around me are in.
Well, I have my laptop with me to work from home tomorrow, and I’m sleeping in a bit to make up for this morning.
Taxi from DCA was fine ~3p today. I passed a huge line of cars moving south on Beach Dr. to get onto Rock Creek Pkwy.
Looks like things are supposed to running normally in the morning. I’ll find out.