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[apocalypsos]

You know, one of these days, I'm not going to be living in the DC area anymore, and some dumbass is going to make the mistake of standing in front of me on an escalator, and I'm going to jump on his head and tattoo "TOURIST!" in big black letters all over his forehead.

And when I give my defense as "Walk left, stand right! Walk left, stand right!" in court, I won't even be able to get away with it. *sigh*

In other news, another Christmas present down, seven more to go. :)

Comments

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

I was going to say... when I was there ('96-'99) they had little signs. And people were generally good enough about it that the occasional aberration stood out clearly and usually got mowed down enough times they finally got a clue.

Then again, I lived on the Dupont Circle stop, which (at the time) had the longest escalator stretch in the system (and in much of the world). Unless you had time to kill and/or were exhausted/injured *everyone* gave up and started walking by the halfway mark, even the tourists

[cyprinella]

Heh. I took my mom to that Metro stop the first time she was in DC with me and when we were leaving, she made me stop at CVS so that she could get a camera and take a picture of it. I had that escalator die on me once when I was a third of the way up and had an ankle injury. *That* sucked.

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah. Climbing the entire length up unassisted when it was dead really sucked. (They were good about switching them, though, so if only one was dead it was made the downward one. They would have had a mutiny on their hands if they didn't.)

Of course the last fifty feet or so is exposed to the sky, which means that more than once I was exhausted enough at the end of the day to want to just ride up by that point -- only to get hit by a face-full of pouring rain and have to climb like mad in sheer self-preservation. :-p

Hot damn! I just checked the web for that station (to see if they had the actual length listed (they don't) and saw this:

"Last train departs: Shady Grove- 12:10 a.m. Glenmont- 12:00 a.m.
(Trains leave exactly 3 hours later on Friday and Saturday nights.)"

Do you know how much money in taxis it would have saved me if that extension had been operating in my day? *shakes head*

[thoughtcr1me.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's about 195 feet, which is nearly 90 feet shorter than Wheaton. That's if my math is right. (unlikely at best)

Article here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31605-2004May16.html), shows metro escalators at 90 feet/minute and DuPont's escalator taking 2:10 versus Wheaton's 3:00. Go figure.

I knew the damned thing was long, but I had no idea it was that long! :)