You had ONE JOB.
Posted on 10/12/2021 11:40:30 PM PDT by blueplum
Metro train derailed Tuesday afternoon on the Blue Line near the Arlington Cemetery station, the transit agency reported.
The incident occurred about 4:50 p.m. Metro rail controllers in the Rail Operations Control Center received a report of a disabled Blue Line train in the tunnel between the Rosslyn and Arlington Cemetery stations in Northern Virginia, Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta said. Metro officials said the train, a 7000-series train that is one of Metro’s latest models, partially slipped off the tracks.
Metro officials said that 300 to 400 people were on the train and that 187 passengers had been evacuated by 7:45 p.m., with one person taken to a hospital as a precaution...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Our world is looking more and more like Atlas Shrugged every day.
Thank goodness the details stuff is dumbed out for the public. No sense in factual details, it only results in more questions that make your head hurt.
Idiocracy is our culture today. How long until the Great Trash Avalanche of 2022?
When I lived in Arlington the W&OD was the only railroad in town. And it was above ground.
W&OD tracks were removed in the 70s/80s and track beds were turned into bucolic bike/hike paths. Nowadays you can bicycle from out past Dulles into town.
I can’t imagine any railroad giving up that property though. Maybe it’s on lease or, maybe a RR did give it up... which IMHO that would have been a stupid move.
I moved outta NOVA for good in 2003. When I left in ‘73, once past the beltway was pretty much “the sticks,” heck the Springfield mixing bowl onto 95 was a Yield sign back then. The Herndon HS crowd were known as “cow-milkers”. That was just 50 years ago.... dang.
Not keeping the trains running on time
That was my exact thought when I saw this headline. Interesting to watch.
Wonder if this is mandate related?
and then the FEDGOV grew and grew and grew....
The Metro System is a jobs program. Any transportation it provides is a extra benefit. And it seems to have a real problem with maintenance and operations.
I did a heckuva lot of biking and running on the W&OD Trail. It's a nice feature.... as you said you can go from Ashburn all the way to the Potomac just about.
We moved to Reston in 1996 and lived there till 2008. You would not believe the growth that has taken place along the Dulles corridor. One after another of the Beltway Bandits represented along 267. Government grows and the attendant contractors follow. In fact that is why we moved to Reston in the first place. It was a nice place to raise a family. And now they are extending The Metro to Dulles (currently it terminates at Herndon).
You had ONE JOB.
Any follow-up on the cause of the crash in Montana???
No worries...Mayor Pete is on the scene.
I remember those days. I went to high school in Springfield (Go Spartans!) We were among the first families to move into the Saratoga subdivision back when Rolling Road was actually a rolling, winding little two-way road through the woods.
I was surprised to see it all built up and turned into a four-lane road with lots of shopping centers, office parks, etc. along it when I visited a few years later
My sister lived in Reston and the other lived in Columbia Md, the other concept subdivision.
Back when the Dulles Access Road went directly to the airport and back with no entrances or exits and there was no traffic after 8 on a quiet Friday night...
We used to go over to what is now Wolftrap farm park, sit on the hill overlooking the Dulles access road and watch the local ¼ mile hotrods show up and start racing.
And sometimes the Cops would show up and watch them Race too! There were some impressive street rods running around Northern Virginia back in those days.
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