Metro in the Age of Crazy
TBE: The chronic problems of the Washington metro system can’t be blamed entirely upon its dysfunctional, multi-state governance system or even the poor choices of its governing board. Any realistic appraisal of the Metro must take into account the fact that the country is increasingly populated by friggin’ lunatics!
The Metro board came up with the idea of selling off the naming rights to Metro stations. Most recently, the board waived its existing naming rules in order to finalize a deal with a “Fortune Global 500 company” to rename the soon-to-open Innovation Center station (near the Center for Innovative Technology building) to a name selected by the unnamed corporation. Now members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors are in a snit that the county wasn’t consulted. more here [It gets worse]
“Swamp Access” would be my choice.
Traitors’ Gallows Station would be great!
I’ve never been in the subways of New York or Washington DC, but Chicago subways look more like sewers than subways. They are dark and filthy and ugly. London’s tubes are better and pretty efficient, but very cold in the winter. Paris subways don’t look too bad but stink like urine. The Moscow Metro system is beautiful and clean and the trains run very often and like clockwork. They were built mostly by slave labor, though, and the stations are very far apart.
I can think of a better station naming system, although it might not mean any naming rights money.
Leech Station
Vampire Bat
Blow-Fly
Bloodsucker Central
Stinking Swamp
Rabid Raccoon
Tse-tse Fly
Malaria Mosquito
Tapeworm Transfer Station
San Francrisco Sidewalk
Auschwitz
Caracas Barrio
Hog Waste Lagoon
Take the Red line from Rosatom Center station to Burisma Park station, then transfer to Yellow line and exit at Huawei Garden station, comrade.
“Traitors’ Gallows Station would be great!”
Hell yes. At the end of the line.
The way DC’s Affirmative Action Train Conductors already (mis)pronounce the stations makes this all the more fun!
Did you know that “L’Enfant Plaza Station” (you know, Pierre L’Enfant, that wild and crazy French guy that sorta kinda *designed* Washington, DC…completed by Ellicott and Banneker) is pronounced: LA-fun-Pluzz?
Yeah, me neither. But, welcome to DC!
Thirdtwin
NOVEMBER 25, 2019 AT 11:15 AM
““Traitors’ Gallows Station would be great!”
Hell yes. At the end of the line.”
…will the subway make seven turns around the main line, then tuck the bitter end of the spur in, facing up the way it came?
…would seem appropriate…
Bum Central?
“Murder On The Obama Son Express”
Bacon Station, no muslim would get off there.
Street urchin comfort station.
Diarrhoea Junction.
The deep sation
Oooh! You can smell the rats! Station
Shithole.
Call them ALL that. It’s accurate every single time…
DC Metro already allows turnstile jumping & announced they would not prosecute anyone that does so…any wonder why they report losses?
… besides the city gubmint being so corrupt, I mean
Muslims don’t control Hollywood, Wall Street, the media, and push for Middle Eastern wars.
Know your real enemy.
Trayvon Martin Memorial Subway Station.
😭😭😭 Leave Foggy Bottom alone!!!😭😭😭
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