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Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: Metro updates ()
Date: February 21, 2014 02:20PM

Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
http://www.wtop.com/654/3565870/Buses-replace-trains-on-2-Metro-lines-this-weekend

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Buses will replace trains on sections of the orange and blue lines this weekend.

Metro says beginning Friday at 10 p.m. and continuing through closing on Sunday, buses will replace orange line trains between Eastern Market and Cheverly. On the blue line, buses will replace trains between Eastern Market and Benning Road. Elsewhere on both lines, trains will run at 15 minute intervals.

On the green line, trains will operate at regular weekend intervals except at the Greenbelt station where trains will arrive and depart every 20 to 25 minutes between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. On the red line, trains will operate every 16 minutes, but between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. additional trains will run between Van Ness and Silver Spring.

No yellow line work is scheduled.

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: Michelephant ()
Date: February 23, 2014 12:55PM

Anyone taking metro on the weekend is a loser. Move on.

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: Actually... ()
Date: February 23, 2014 02:16PM

Anyone who drives downtown at any time when Metro is an alternative is a complete moron.

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: ecd7W ()
Date: February 23, 2014 04:36PM

Actually... Wrote:
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> Anyone who drives downtown at any time when Metro
> is an alternative is a complete moron.

Of course you think that, "Doctor". Let's all get into a bus or enclosed space and spread the flu around. Great idea! Now let's castrate you!

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1423707/1425733.html#msg-1425733

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: Metro = FAIL ()
Date: February 23, 2014 06:31PM

Anyone who drives downtown at any time when Metro is an alternative is a complete moron.
>>>>>>>>>>

Really? You must have failed basic math in 6th grade. Metro is so overpriced that having only one additional passenger in a car plus the cost of parking and gas, is cheaper than two round trip Metro fares from Vienna to DC.

Metro is one of the most expensive rail systems in the country. But aside from pure sticker shock, Metro riders pay a much higher percentage of the cost to provide the service than riders in any other cities do.

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: The Realist ()
Date: February 23, 2014 10:22PM

Metro = FAIL Wrote:
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> Anyone who drives downtown at any time when Metro
> is an alternative is a complete moron.
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
> Really? You must have failed basic math in 6th
> grade. Metro is so overpriced that having only
> one additional passenger in a car plus the cost of
> parking and gas, is cheaper than two round trip
> Metro fares from Vienna to DC.
>
> Metro is one of the most expensive rail systems in
> the country. But aside from pure sticker shock,
> Metro riders pay a much higher percentage of the
> cost to provide the service than riders in any
> other cities do.

Aside from being more expensive it has one of the most convoluted fare pricing systems in the US. Charging people extra to ride the lines with paper tickets is dumb too. NY MTA's fare pricing blows Metro away.

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: juH3n ()
Date: February 23, 2014 10:28PM

This sounds cool. How do they get the busses on the tracks?

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Re: Buses replace trains on 2 Metro lines this weekend
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: February 23, 2014 11:27PM

juH3n Wrote:
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> This sounds cool. How do they get the busses on
> the tracks?

They drive them on dumb ass. You're so dumb.

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