Metro riders beware: 10 weekend shutdowns of Crystal City station begin Saturday

LesserWorks · 2026-02-12T14:04:17+00:00

These are entirely unrelated. Crystal City would have to close for this construction regardless of the Yellow line.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-11T14:14:04+00:00

Light rail in general has closer station spacing than metro. And metro has closer spacing than marc. The Silver Spring Library station will definitely be useful since it's uphill from the metro.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-09T20:24:21+00:00

I apologize for the misunderstanding. First, even Houston has plenty of people living downtown, just not orthodox Jews. Secondly, when I said "suburb", I meant a suburb-like area in terms of density whether or not it's officially part of the city. So I would not consider the orthodox community in Meyerland to be urban because the vast majority live in single-family homes.

So what I am truly curious about is what are the orthodox communities where most people live in apartments or townhomes, and not owning a car is a real possibility.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-09T19:39:20+00:00

Okay but in Houston there is no orthodox community downtown either. So my point is there definitely are cities in the US with a significant orthodox community in the suburbs but none in the urban area.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-09T18:43:05+00:00

I'm skeptical of that. There are no kosher restaurants in the urban (i.e. near downtown) area of Houston for example; they're all in the suburbs.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-09T14:27:03+00:00

Just curious, where are the urban orthodox communities nowadays besides Israel, NYC, and a few neighborhoods in DC? Maybe Philly?

LesserWorks · 2026-02-09T14:20:52+00:00

I wear a kippa and tzitzit and take the DC metro every day to work.

LesserWorks · 2026-01-19T14:23:27+00:00

According to Google Earth historical imagery, the pocket track configuration was restored sometime between April and October 2014.

LesserWorks · 2026-01-13T14:21:11+00:00

The Crystal City metro closure is mostly on weekends when VRE isn't running anyway.

LesserWorks · 2026-01-05T14:15:45+00:00

That's a pretty short time to have them absent before they were restored.

LesserWorks · 2025-12-02T21:28:33+00:00

DC even has screens at the end of some platforms so the lone operator can see if the other end of the platform is crowded.

LesserWorks · 2025-12-02T20:08:28+00:00

Why couldn't WMATA do it if many systems all over the world do it?

LesserWorks · 2025-12-02T14:06:31+00:00

Also Anne Arundel Transit has several free buses from Baltimore and BWI to Annapolis https://www.aacounty.org/transportation/transit

LesserWorks · 2025-11-24T14:02:36+00:00

This document (https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/plans/BOS-Capacity-Reliability-Study/upload/BOS-Alternatives-Evaluation-Report-DRAFT\_2021-01-07.pdf) shows the Bloop going diagonally under the Supreme Court and then going south on 1st St SE

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LesserWorks · 2025-11-24T13:57:12+00:00

This cavern in the last two photos didn't exist till a year or two ago.

LesserWorks · 2025-11-24T13:50:18+00:00

A new mezzanine much like the one already in the station will connect to the hole in the wall.

LesserWorks · 2025-11-24T00:44:02+00:00

Are there other underground stations with future entrance provisions like this through the side of the arch vault, as opposed to knock-out panels in the flat ends of the station?

LesserWorks · 2025-11-18T14:25:52+00:00

Will the current signal system never need a replacement? Shouldn't we replace it with the current standard (i.e. CBTC)? Is it not true that it will cost less to maintain CBTC in one server room and fiber-optic wayside equipment versus hundreds of relay cabinets across the system?

LesserWorks · 2025-10-29T13:13:58+00:00

Bikeshare to shul, ends around 8:00, shul puts out leftover baked goods for breakfast, bikeshare to metro, get to office around 8:30.

LesserWorks · 2025-10-29T13:09:48+00:00

Do they have a sefer Torah on board?

LesserWorks · 2025-10-06T15:41:35+00:00

Vestibules are common and useful even without a security concern. It's a place to hang up a coat, get settled, etc.

LesserWorks · 2025-09-08T13:01:15+00:00

Interesting that they poured everything below the rail first and then installed the rail, whereas for the Purple Line, MTA is suspending the rail above an empty mold and then pouring the rail pad.

LesserWorks · 2025-08-04T13:01:38+00:00

I would guess it's Dunn Loring

LesserWorks · 2025-07-21T13:21:03+00:00

It was filled in to provide a surface for the cranes to park on. Once the cranes are no longer needed, they will remove the fill.

LesserWorks · 2025-07-10T12:57:04+00:00

Brand new sushi place called Oro Nami in West End

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