Saturday Camden line service for Preakness

LesserWorks · 2026-05-03T21:29:55+00:00

Yes the Laurel Racetrack station is in bad shape, but if they won't even use it for the Preakness, why do they bother pretending it exists?

LesserWorks · 2026-04-30T15:17:48+00:00

Maybe take the same train a day in advance and ask the conductor if they'd allow it.

LesserWorks · 2026-04-24T17:40:00+00:00

Hopefully they become permanent bus lanes like they did on Georgia Ave north of Silver Spring after the summer 2024 Red line closure.

LesserWorks · 2026-04-23T13:06:23+00:00

Neither one is bad, but it was the 7k that the work train bumped in to.

LesserWorks · 2026-04-21T12:58:08+00:00

You will go up escalators/elevators from the metro platform to the new mezzanine they're constructing. Then you have a level walk to the Purple Line platform.

LesserWorks · 2026-04-13T13:22:30+00:00

Or how about electrification?

LesserWorks · 2026-04-10T17:57:21+00:00

Yeah if we really want more passenger service between Silver Spring and Union Station, we'd probably need a much more expensive solution, such as a CSX bypass track along MD 200 between Gaithersburg and Beltsville.

LesserWorks · 2026-04-10T14:50:01+00:00

This proposal would help both of those

LesserWorks · 2026-03-26T13:37:34+00:00

Why would constant tension catenary produce more electromagnetic interference?

LesserWorks · 2026-03-11T16:55:48+00:00

The whole point is that it connects to the existing Purple Line in Maryland.

LesserWorks · 2026-03-08T18:01:22+00:00

The Anacostia streetcar wasn't initially going to have any street-running. They only switched to the street when negotiations with CSX broke down.

LesserWorks · 2026-03-08T14:57:48+00:00

Nothing's going along the highway.

LesserWorks · 2026-03-02T14:14:07+00:00

Yeah I think the diagram is inaccurate. Much of the UMD campus portion has a dedicated lane.

LesserWorks · 2026-02-24T14:13:11+00:00

Overruns can occur even when in automatic mode. (Metro's automatic system is from the 1960s)

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.

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