Seriously?
I didn't know this about the Metro:
"Dignified ambiance?" Who are they trying to kid? Metro has about all of the ambiance of Soviet-era brutalist architecture. Except even the Moskovsky Metro in Moscow is more aesthetically appealing than anything on this system.
Which is all news to me, because I have mentioned before how the Washington Metro is absolutely terrible compared to most systems.Metro's new general manager wants to get rid of the carpet in trains, brighten the lighting in stations and increase advertising in stations, trains and buses.
In many places, such mundane changes would be met with a shrug.
But this is the Washington area Metro, which has long prided itself on a dignified ambiance that is supposed to make it better than the average commuter system.
"Dignified ambiance?" Who are they trying to kid? Metro has about all of the ambiance of Soviet-era brutalist architecture. Except even the Moskovsky Metro in Moscow is more aesthetically appealing than anything on this system.
posted by Brian Griffiths at 8:42 PM
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Actually, The Washington Metrorail system is one of the best in the world.
The problem with Metrorail is that they took over 30 years to complete it thanks to the loving combination of the NIMBY crowd and highway lobbyist. One good example of NIMBY was the fact that the uptight elitist Georgetowners did not want a station stop in the neighborhood. Now they are craving for it.
The other problem is that is was designed before the era of McMansions in Loudon and Far West Fairfax. Nor did anyone plan on people to move to Howard or Anne Arundel County to live. In other words, it was planned pre-before you were born, let alone me.
Personally, I am surprised that WMATA went this long without making the inside of stations looking like a whorish technicolor nightmare.
Public Transportation in DC and Baltimore to a point favors the inner suburbs and the city.
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