What's wrong with 'Metro Brown?'

Last week, the Washington Post featured a lengthy profile of WMATA’s head architect, the man behind the concepts in Metro’s recently unveiled ‘station of the future‘ concept. The article offers some insight into the thinking behind the proposed re-design of the Bethesda station, as well as some of the pushback Metro has received already from the

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May 12th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Metro's 'station of the future' - why mess with what works?

This week, WMATA unveiled a concept for their “station of the future.” The press release and accompanying video flythough of the pilot station (Bethesda) for these improvements lists the reasons for these changes, including “improved lighting, better information and improved customer convenience.” And who would be against those things? All three have been criticisms of Metro

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April 14th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

A day in the life of Metro

Metro’s definitely seen better days.  The Washington Post had a lengthy piece in Sunday’s edition documenting the massive problems facing the system: aging infrastructure, missing leadership, a broken safety culture, amongst others.  Metro’s been trimming the fat to balance budgets for a while, and it now looks like they’ve been cutting into the bone and

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February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Metro, Transit | 2 comments

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