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brooklynite

(94,679 posts) Tue Nov 29, 2016, 04:58 PM Nov 2016

Metro staff recommend closing at 11:30 weekdays, 1 am on weekends

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/34293/metro-staff-recommend-closing-at-1130-weekdays-1-am-on-weekends/

WMATA staff are recommending that after SafeTrack ends, the Metro system adopt a new service schedule that ends at 11:30 pm Monday through Thursday and 1 am Friday and Saturday and runs between 8 am and 11 pm on Sunday. Reducing late night service will provide an additional eight hours per week for maintenance.

It must be nice to live in a world Capital where everyone's tucked into bed by midnight...and sleeping in on Sunday sounds nice.

Seriously, the 8:15 train from NYC gets into Washington slightly after 11 PM. In the "unlikely" event of a delay, I'd hate to have to run for the last train.

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Metro staff recommend closing at 11:30 weekdays, 1 am on weekends (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2016 OP

My understanding is that the system needs extensive repairs frazzled Nov 2016 #1

Yes, but the intent is to maintain these hours PERMANENTLY, once the repairs are completed. brooklynite Nov 2016 #3

The system is in need of serious repairs jberryhill Nov 2016 #2

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

1. My understanding is that the system needs extensive repairs

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 05:03 PM

Nov 2016

You have to make a choice: continue with a degrading and perhaps unsafe system, or allocate the time for repairs to be made. If I lived there, I'd choose the latter.

Here in Chicago, we've had rotating service diversions on the many El lines for the past four or five years—all for the purpose of track improvements, repairs, and upgrades. It's a system that was built over 100 years ago, and I thank them for every upgrade they are making.

brooklynite

(94,679 posts)

3. Yes, but the intent is to maintain these hours PERMANENTLY, once the repairs are completed.

Reply to frazzled (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 05:17 PM

Nov 2016

nb - notwithstanding repair needs, Chicago (and NYC) keep some or all of their rail system running 24 hours.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. The system is in need of serious repairs

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 05:12 PM

Nov 2016

After that fire a while back, they found out that the METRO needs a lot of work.

Come to Philly, and enjoy SEPTA's regional rail with about half the rolling stock suddenly pulled out of commission due to a material defect, and then when they were getting them back into service found out that the repairs didn't actually fix the defect. Whether they manage to take this out of the hide of the manufacturer is anyone's guess...

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