The new 7000 series metrocars will be made of wood.
I kid, but here’s Wash Posts article on the 7000 series prototype that is going to replace the 35 year old 1000 series cars and the rest go to the new Dulles Airport line (which I think is kinda unfair).
(via yitzytaughtme)
I wonder who is in charge of cleaning metro cars. Just look at that floor. You could eat a sandwich off of that thing. I would but I don’t like sandwiches. I’m sure you understand.
Metro Bus Shelter, 7th Street at E Street, Southwest Washington, DC, April 1995, by Joel Sternfeld.
Usually, I prefer images to stand by themselves. My aesthetic sensibility doesn’t look kindly on photographs that rely heavily on explanatory context: I feel it’s cheating. A good picture is a good picture. If the picture doesn’t give you an interesting experience by just looking at it, it’s probably no good. However! Every preference has its exceptions. One of these exceptions, I think, is Joel Sternfeld’s series On this site (or what I’ve seen of it, anyway). Sternfeld photographed scenes of various tragedies some time after they happened: deadly fires, murders, vast pollution, criminal neglect. Accompanying the pictures, which by themselves look plain, at times idyllic, are pithy texts explaining what happened “on this site”. Here’s the text that accompanies the above picture:
Yetta M. Adams froze to death sitting upright in this bus shelter across from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC, on November 29, 1993. The forty-three-year-old mother of three grown-up children had reportedly been turned away from a homeless shelter the night before.
(Source: dailymeh)
As a person who now commutes to work in Bethesda and Dupont Circle, this song needs to become my new anthem. Holy crap, posted on tumblr for it’s brutal and hilarious truth.
Have a nice commute home.
DCist:
WMATA just announced that the morning rush hour peak-of-the-peak fare surcharge on Metrorail trips will go into effect on Sunday, August 29. (Of course, this means that August 30 will be the first day the surcharge is actually levied.) The twenty-cent charge will be added to all weekday trips which begin between 7:30 and 9 a.m. WMATA had postponed the implementation of the morning surcharge after it was discovered that the existing faregates needed a memory upgrade to process the additional fare. The afternoon rush hour surcharge has been in place since August 3.
(More info at DCist)
