Comments on: Severe Crowding at Pentagon City Metro Station

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:53:17 +0000

I agree – WMATA will cheat you every chance they get.

By: Underground

Underground — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:48 +0000

The U in london is crowded. 395/95/66 is crowded. This one stop on the Yellow/Blue line is not crowded 90% of the day.

By: ARL-VA

ARL-VA — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:22:55 +0000

*handful of people getting pushed by others nationwide each year

By: Michael H.

Michael H. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:21:32 +0000

+10

By: Michael H.

Michael H. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:20:08 +0000

Yes, Gallery Place is very dangerous when it’s crowded, which means most mornings at rush hour. Metro has suggested that they could expand some of the platforms in the station by extending the walkways all the way to the concrete walls, removing those unneeded spaces near the walls. But I don’t know if there are specific plans to follow through on the proposal.

By: ARL-VA

ARL-VA — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:16:52 +0000

No, we pointed out that there are only a handful of people getting pushed by others onto train tracks each year. Quit misquoting other people. This came up when you started up another of your biased and sensationalist points about how there could be an extreme danger from the County shelter at Court House. At the same time, you completely ignore the fact that 32,000 Americans get killed every year by car drivers.

You also ignored that fact when the elderly cyclist accidentally killed the elderly woman last year on a trail. Somehow you used that incident to proclaim that all cyclists are 20-something Lycra-clad Lance wannabes who are the most dangerous threat to the American citizen. Cyclist-caused deaths are extremely rare and so are cases of people being pushed onto train tracks. And yet, you somehow believe cyclists and mentally ill people are a threat to the existence of the American republic, while 32,000 deaths (and about 60,000 other serious injuries) caused by car drivers is somehow OK because car driving is defined by you as conservative and patriotic, or whatever you use to justify all those deaths.

By: bobbytiger

bobbytiger — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:59:36 +0000

Metro doesn’t kill, people do.

By: Josh S

Josh S — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:14:57 +0000

At what point does Metro consider methods to prevent this? I understand some systems around the world have physical barriers that prevent access to the track except when a train is there and the doors are open. This might be worthwhile.

By: Walsh44

Walsh44 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:49:34 +0000

You could have grabbed a BikeShare bike down the street from the PC station & taken the MVT to the 14th St bridge. You probably would have saved time.

By: novasteve

novasteve — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:02:57 +0000

Drax you are comparing mass shootings nationally with just DC metro’s suicides. I’m fairly certain there are suicides on other subway systems in the USA.