BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Metro Town Hall Meeting

DC -- Metro Town Hall Meeting:

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Description of Pictures: The Board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) hosted its first Town Hall meeting to talk to customers on a variety of issues dealing with Metrorail, Metrobus and Metroaccess such as service, funding and expansion. Bob Levey, Senior Vice President for Development at the Washington Hospital Center and former columnist with The Washington Post, moderated the Town Hall meeting.

People asked a lot of interesting questions reflecting the diverse needs of the Metro customer base. Bathroom access, escalators, short door times, trash cans, future expansion, one-price service, unruly school kids, etc.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. METRO_041116_007.JPG: Light rail which may be used on one of the extensions from the Pentagon to Columbia Pike.
2. METRO_041116_018.JPG: The 14th Street Metro bridge. You can see the Jefferson Memorial in the upper right.
3. METRO_041116_023.JPG: Plans for the new railroad cars. Note that they lose some seats for handicapper access and they've also yanked all of the poles at the entrance of the doors to get people moving further in. However, more of the seats will have vertical poles to help people stand in the middle of the trains. The length of the cars will be the same as now, 70 feet. They'll also have more emergency call boxes.
4. METRO_041116_045.JPG: The proposed bus solution for K street
5. METRO_041116_057.JPG: Fort Totten station's model
6. METRO_041116_067.JPG: The New York Avenue (and Gallaudet U) station is the first in-fill station (one built between two existing stations) in an operating U.S. transit system. It's also the first Metro station to have local financing filling in the costs.
7. METRO_041116_089.JPG: There's a bike path that runs down the area so they had to build a lane for that as well.
8. METRO_041116_127.JPG: Gordon Linton
9. METRO_041116_213.JPG: Christopher Zimmerman
10. METRO_041116_234.JPG: Dana Kauffman (Vice Chair)
11. METRO_041116_262.JPG: Left to right: Marcell Solomon, David A. Catania, and Charles Deegan
12. METRO_041116_283.JPG: Charles Deegan
13. METRO_041116_293.JPG: Gladys Mack (2nd Vice Chair)
14. METRO_041116_304.JPG: Calvin Nophlin
15. METRO_041116_310.JPG: Richard A. White (Chief Executive Officer)
16. METRO_041116_324.JPG: Jim Graham
17. METRO_041116_337.JPG: Marcell Solomon
18. METRO_041116_418.JPG: Bob Levey (served as moderator)
19. METRO_041116_424.JPG: Robert Smith (Chairman)
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Wikipedia Description: Metrorail (Washington, D.C.)
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Metrorail, or simply Metro, is the rapid transit system of Washington, D.C., and neighboring communities in Maryland and Virginia, both inside and outside the Capital Beltway, and is the second busiest in the United States behind the New York City Subway. In Maryland, service is provided in Prince George's County and Montgomery County; in Virginia, service extends to Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the city of Alexandria.

Overview:

The Metrorail (subway) system and the Metrobus (bus) network are owned and operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) — a multijurisdictional, quasi-governmental agency. WMATA also operates a paratransit service for the disabled called MetroAccess. However, the expression "Metro" usually refers to Metrorail exclusively.

Unlike the subway systems in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, Metrorail fare is zoned. This means it is not fixed, but varies based on the distance traveled and the time of day. Riders enter and exit the system using a stored-value card in the form of a paper magnetic stripe farecard or a proximity card known as SmarTrip. Both methods track the balance paid to Metro, as well as the rider's entry and exit points.

Since opening in 1976, the subway network has grown to five lines, consisting of 86 stations and 106.3 miles (171 km) of track. The original plan of 83 stations on 103 miles (165.5 km) was completed on January 13, 2001. There were 207.9 million trips, or 702,121 trips per weekday, on Metrorail in fiscal year 2007. In July 2007, Metrorail set a new monthly ridership record with 19,281,809 trips, or 772,826 per weekday.

Metrorail was designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese, and is an exemplar of late-20th century modern architecture. With its heavy use of concrete and the repetitive nature of its design motifs, it displays aspects of Brutalism, which in Washington is also illustr ...More...
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