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Software engineer. Advocate for people-oriented places. Side projects: @dcmetrohero (RIP), @ariesfortransit, and @picketnotifier.
Oct 22, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
This is Train 702 (formerly 302), which appears to be disabled in approach to Gallery Place, but the train hasn't berthed the station platform yet.

Still no MetroAlert or anything from #WMATA about this despite the incident starting ~15 minutes ago. aaaand there it is: #wmata
Oct 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Scoop by @MetroReasons: a specification change was made in 2017 that affected the wheelsets of all new 7000-series railcars after a "wheelset inspection event" at Kawasaki's facility—but not before more than half of the railcars in #WMATA's order had already been built. "In Kawasaki’s response, they asked Metro a question: 'Please clarify what WMATA would like to do with the wheelsets already provided with the current mounting requirements.' It is unclear if Metro responded to the question." 😬 #wmata
Oct 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
30-minute headways? Try closer to 60-minute headways, as #WMATA apparently demonstrated for Largo-bound Blue Line riders earlier this morning. source: dcmetrohero.com/departures?dep…
Oct 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
me? i'm looking forward to #wmata continuing to charge riders peak fares for 30-minute wait times. hey remember when #wmata's board didn't ask any questions publicly about this derailment lol good times haha
Sep 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine cancelling the only two Metrobus trips this morning for a given bus route and just...not telling anyone. Impressive, #WMATA. Not exactly a banner past 30 days for the D31 by the looks of it. 😬 #wmata

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Sep 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
seems like a great way to overfit your way into injuring and killing lots of people in completely unpredictable ways. well done! Image this ain't chess, y'all; you cannot accurately simulate inherently unpredictable roadways and all the ways they'll be (mis)used to avoid causing harm—perhaps in ways human drivers can't or otherwise don't—once they're out in the real world
Jun 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Here's what #WMATA's board is set to vote on come Thursday, June 10th, largely unchanged from last week's recommendations by agency staff: wmata.com/about/board/me… Most of these changes wouldn't be implemented until the fall, but riders could start using Metrorail until midnight every day by sometime this summer under this proposal. #wmata
May 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
#WMATA's Weekday Service Adjustments page clearly says "Regular daytime intervals: Trains every 12 minutes until 7 p.m." for the Silver Line. wmata.com/service/status…

Over 3 hours in, the agency still has not issued a MetroAlert.

Third week in a row of unannounced service cuts. This region desperately needs the operational performance oversight and enforcement version of @MetrorailSafety—something, anything to consistently incentivize #WMATA to communicate effectively about its service.
May 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Friendly reminder that many US transit agencies, including #WMATA back in March 2020, cut transit service for these essential workers while blasting shameful messaging about how their services shouldn't be used by anyone else. Free fares wouldn't fix the inherent inequities baked into running trains and buses more often at some times of day than others; all-day frequent service would, but, implemented poorly, free fares could prevent us from doing that given fixed operating budgets. #wmata
May 12, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
@Metrorailinfo Do you plan on letting customers know where and when this vegetation removal work will be taking place, either in advance or once it has started in a given area? There's nothing on your Planned Metrorail Track Work page, for example: wmata.com/service/track-… It's ridiculous that the only place to get any information about this unannounced track work is via Twitter.

@justingeorge or @JWPascale, have you heard anything from WMATA or otherwise about this work and the resulting delays?
Feb 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Quality real-time data is important and should not be thought of as optional. #wmata Replace "traffic" in this predictive tweet with literally any other reason why a given shuttle bus might not be following its posted schedule. #wmata
Dec 11, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Is this a Trump Administration press release? #wmata Friendly reminder that a law firm's inability to substantiate allegations does not mean they aren't true, especially when other allegations *were* substantiated. #wmata
Dec 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#WMATA is now playing last month's @wmataRAC update video instead of the correct one for this month. do we need a 'is metro having technical difficulties' twitter account #wmata
Dec 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I wonder what everyone thinks about having their rail service cut! Better rush to public comment to find out. 🙄 #wmata It's smart for #WMATA to consider what its budget situation will look like without more federal money and prepare accordingly, but going forward with this now may very well end up confusing riders if the worst-case scenario does not come to fruition.
Dec 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Pretty frustrating to see how underweighted on-time performance is in #WMATA's new grading scheme for its Metrobus routes. Yes, most all of this stuff is important, but suggesting they should all be weighted equally? No. wmata.com/about/board/me… Image #WMATA staff presenter now talking about how on-time performance and service span are what riders care about the most, yet they're weighted as much as any other line item in this matrix. Why?
Jul 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#WMATA provably hasn't been providing enough weekday train and bus service for effective social distancing for weeks on Metrorail, and *months* on Metrobus. Image Is strict social distancing required if everyone is wearing a mask? No, it's not, but the fact is that not everyone is wearing a mask, and #WMATA isn't enforcing their use or proactively making them available to riders, so...
Jun 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"One of the things [#WMATA] has been looking at with our local communities is providing exclusive bus lanes, which allows us to move buses quicker."

In lieu of being able to run more buses due to labor concerns, this may be one of the agency's only options as traffic ramps up. "Is it a matter of keeping service levels just ahead of demand as you ramp up?" asks @MartinDiCaro.

Unfortunately, #WMATA has been failing to safely meet Metrobus ridership demand for months, per the agency's own data:
Mar 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
People are at crowded bus stops because they have places they must go and have no other practical choices for transportation. It doesn't have to be this way if our governments made sure these folks didn't need to travel and/or if #WMATA ran more buses. What do we expect people who still need to go to work, or still need to get groceries, to do? What power do they in themselves have to forgo those obligations? Simply asking people to stay home isn't enough. Assume those on the street have good intentions until proven otherwise.
Mar 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Practicing social distancing is made more difficult by these station closures and continued rail and bus service cuts, but yes, I'm sure people will keep this in mind to the extent that they will be worried about it while on their overcrowded buses, for example. 😞 #wmata The order of operations was all wrong for how we scaled back transit service *before* addressing all the underlying causes for why people were riding. Instead, #WMATA shamed riders publicly in their communications, and those who need to get around continue to struggle to do so.
Mar 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
If #WMATA's publicly-stated reasons for cutting service are to be believed—employee safety, low ridership, rationing of cleaning supplies, etc.—it seems unlikely that a federal "bailout" would result in a return of normal Metro service, even if that money goes towards operations. That's not to suggest the federal government spending more on transit operations is a bad thing, because in itself it's not, but I do think it's important to calibrate our expectations for what exactly this money is going to do for #WMATA with regards to service levels.
Mar 21, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
This decision by #WMATA seems super well organized, as always. #wmata