Commuters
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How Metro commuters react to graffiti on the Red Line
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What reactions does graffiti inspire among the D.C. residents who ride the Metro's Red Line? Are these images art or are they blight? How do the graffiti artists themselves see their creations and how do they perceive their transit-riding audience? A new 13-minute short film seeks to answer these questions.
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Idea of the day: Unite Metro and bus commuters in a social network
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Why not use social media like Facebook, Twitter, or entirely new networks to bring together people who ride public transit together? Harriet Tregoning suggested the idea at last week's Rail~Volution conference. Perhaps bus route riders should even get matching T-shirts.
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Washington Improv Theater shows Metro commuter love in 48-Hour Film winner
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Ride on a bus, train, bike trail, or walk the same sidewalk every day, and you start to recognize the same people.The 2011 winner of the D.C. 48 Hour Film Project showcases this phenomenon in a short dramatic video that takes place on a Metro train.
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Idea of the day: Run the MARC trains on the weekend
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D.C. welcomes its Baltimore commuters Monday through Friday only to dismiss them on the weekend with no service. How might MARC be able to extend service on Saturday and Sunday — is there truly not enough demand to justify it?
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Ups and downs: The Metro escalator problem escalates in the media
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From the New York Times to WTOP, everyone seems to hate WMATA's sad, creaking escalators this week. But should they?
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