for instance, cops once arrested a 12-year-old girl for eating a French fry. No musicians are allowed (yet) to perform in the stations; colorful grafitti is missing; everything looks sanitary; a voice on the trains loudspeaker orders you to get back from the doors each time they open or close.
Just seems so different from NY City where I grew up.
I suppose most control freaks would agree that DC metro’s heavy handed policies promote good order and discipline; and I couldn’t argue with that
So what’s your point.? [?]
No Graffiti?!?!? That’s un-American!
Here’s some pointless metro photos, with apologies to rrandb
Order to get back from the closing doors??? That’s standard proceedure everywhere
No warning beats the London undergrounds…
“Mind The Gap…Mind The Gap…Mind The Gap…”
2 more…
The announcer often fumbles saying it.
I thought the longest was Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Actually, I like the DC metro. Beats Boston by a ton. Atlanta’s is getting scary and doesn’t go anywhere. Haven’t had the chance to ride the light rail in Dallas because it doesn’t go where I want to go. San Diego has an interesting line, but I haven’t had a chance to see where it goes yet.
All the rules are to keep the stations and trains clean. Don’t eat, don’t smoke, don’t drink. Get on or get off, but don’t stand in the doorway. Maps everywhere. If you look lost (or like a tourist) someone will volunteer to answer questions and usually be friendly about it - we are used to tourists here. If you are nice back, a local might even point you to some more interesting sites that are not overrun with other tourists (I highly recommend the Postal Museum. There is an old RPO car inside, and free postcards!).
The enforcement of theDC Metro rules does not discriminate. A woman who was the EPA Administrator (Clinton appointee, I believe) was busted for eating a candy bar on a train.
Among things I willing live with are rules made to keep public spaces clean. The DC Metro has high standards and while riding I have often thought that you could eat off the floors-if they would let you bring in the food.
Jay
Even though they replaced Richard White with Dan Tangerlinni Metro still has its problems.
I had an experience last Saturday, June 11. I recently got a digital SLR, and I wanted to see what kind of photos I could get by setting the sensitivity to the equivalent of ISO 1600. Where better to test the camera than on the platform of one of Metro’s subway stations. When I got to the end of the Red Line at Glenmont I went to the front of the train to snap a picture, and the operator told me I couldn’t do it. I told him he was wrong, but I put the camera away anyhow, why get hassled by Metro’s cops?
I sent an e-mail off to Metro about that confrontation. I got a telephone reply two days later apologizing for the incident, and reconfirming what I had thought. You can photograph Metro’s trains from the station platforms as long as you aren’t a member of tjh media, don’t use a tridpod, interfere with Metro’s operations, or interfere with people using the system; I would also add not using a fla***o that. I thought an answer to my complaint that quickly was interesting indeed.
Even though they replaced Richard White with Dan Tangerlinni Metro still has its problems.
I had an experience last Saturday, June 11. I recently got a digital SLR, and I wanted to see what kind of photos I could get by setting the sensitivity to the equivalent of ISO 1600. Where better to test the camera than on the platform of one of Metro’s subway stations. When I got to the end of the Red Line at Glenmont I went to the front of the train to snap a picture, and the operator told me I couldn’t do it. I told him he was wrong, but I put the camera away anyhow, why get hassled by Metro’s cops?
I sent an e-mail off to Metro about that confrontation. I got a telephone reply two days later apologizing for the incident, and reconfirming what I had thought. You can photograph Metro’s trains from the station platforms as long as you aren’t a member of tjh media, don’t use a tridpod, interfere with Metro’s operations, or interfere with people using the system; I would also add not using a fla***o that. I thought an answer to my complaint that quickly was interesting indeed.
The longest station name is a welsch station see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch