WMATA: trackwork and carpets
Some major track work planned for Metro. The bigger question here is why the Washington Post put this on the front page. Weekend track work is not extraordinary for Metro or for any other rail system and, what's more, Metro has closed stations on weekends before and the Post didn't put it above the fold. Slow news day I guess.
Also: Metro considers removing carpet from cars, in what is a periodically recurring debate. Metro will test hard floors in a single pair of cars. The story has some good photos. It also tells us that prisoners make Metro's seat cushions for the top wage of 80 cents per hour. It's the best paying job in the prison.
Carpeted cars incite strong debate, but after hearing that carpet may actually be cheaper, I only shrug when the topic comes up. I think intuition dictates that hard floors would be cheaper to maintain, but I saw enough worn-through floor tiles at my university to teach me that intuition might fail here.
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massysett | 9:22 AM |
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