Red Line flatlining
If there was ever a day I just wanted to get home and take a nap, it was today. I got about three hours of sleep, had a morning of actual work followed by being forced to listen to the concession and victory speeches on the office TV.
If it was about the war, I'd understand, but it turns out that the half of the country that likes watch cars go around in a circle as sport is deathly afraid that their subdivisions will start looking the West Village if our founding documents aren't modified. It's not my main issue, nor is it one that will change my life one way or the other, but I'm more than a little surprised how scared people are of living near people who aren't exactly like them. Strange how that becomes an urban planning issue.
But anyway, Washingtonians got another big unpleasant surprise:
Twenty injured.
Metro is running shuttle buses between Dupont Circle and Van Ness and the escalator at Dupont isn't working, neither is the elevator. While this isn't really a problem for me, the long walk up (it takes over 2 minutes to ride from end to end) it's trouble for the elderly people who live in places like Van Ness and Friendship Heights. So when granny needs to take a breath, the whole line behind her backs up. There has to be a better way.
Seriously, f*ck WMATA, f*ck the driver who didn't know one track can't handle traffic in two directions, f*ck the red states.
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rj3 | 09:16 PM |
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Well, remember the all-powerful trump card in politics, especially American politics, is Bigotry. It works every time.
