On June 18, Metro is going to screw me over and force me to like it. I take the blue line to farragut west and walk to my job in Dupont. If anyone has ever been on that train in the morning, it completely unloads at Farragut West. Many, many people work there and in the Dupont area coming from NoVA.
These are the changes:
So what they tell you is that you will be waiting an additional 6 minutes for a train. What they do not come out and say, but what anyone with half a brain can figure out, is that those trains will be basically twice as crowded.
So they increased my fare, increased my parking fee, decreased my train service and make the trains I do get on twice as crowded. :thumbsup:
Fuck. This. Considering driving in rush hour. My parking garage at work is cheaper than Metro and I may even get home quicker, and defnitely with my sanity. At least I can listen to the radio.
These are the changes:
•During peak periods, more than 46,000 Orange Line customers will benefit from six additional trains per hour – three in each direction – between Vienna and Largo Town Center. This will result in 18 percent more capacity on the line, or approximately 2,600 seats per hour.
•For 33,500 Blue and Yellow Line customers in Virginia, Rush+ will increase the share of Yellow Line trains, meaning more direct and faster access to downtown via the Yellow Line bridge. A smaller number (about 16,000) weekday peak-period customers who travel on Blue Line trains via Arlington Cemetery will experience a maximum of six-minutes additional waiting time for a train.
•Stations of the Green and Yellow lines from L'Enfant Plaza to Greenbelt will benefit from 18 additional trains during rush hour periods (six additional trains each peak hour, three in each direction). And for the first time, you will be able to travel from Greenbelt to Franconia-Springfield without transferring. More than 28,000 customers will benefit from the change.
So what they tell you is that you will be waiting an additional 6 minutes for a train. What they do not come out and say, but what anyone with half a brain can figure out, is that those trains will be basically twice as crowded.
So they increased my fare, increased my parking fee, decreased my train service and make the trains I do get on twice as crowded. :thumbsup:
Fuck. This. Considering driving in rush hour. My parking garage at work is cheaper than Metro and I may even get home quicker, and defnitely with my sanity. At least I can listen to the radio.