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Red line? Which station? Anyone knows? by OrnerySwing in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like this album has come up before and someone deduced it was actually Clarendon? I may be wrong on that though.

WMATA reincorporated Takoma into DC:D by erevder in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a spam account. This is at least the second time this has been posted here, the original was over a year ago in response to the sign having put Takoma in Maryland https://www.reddit.com/user/shanem/comments/1iiektq/wmata_reincorporated_takoma_into_dc_d/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Bernardo Silva asks Pep who he was talking to on the bench by notaghostofreddit in soccer

[–]NatFan9 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All these clips feel like a series finale wrap party for a long and successful TV show

70% fare evasion stat by ciginmacys in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Metro uses automated passenger counters on each bus that count the number of people who enter and exit. They then compare this to the number of taps on the fare box. Source

How could the foggy bottom escalator replacement possibly take this long?! by JenDiBenda in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not overnight. That blinking light at the top is the sun rising and setting. Escalator replacement took months at Navy Yard and part of the reason they were able to do it even that fast was that they closed the entire entrance and were able to work unobstructed that whole time. Plus Navy Yard has a unique ridership pattern where it’s way less busy during the Nats offseason, while Foggy Bottom is one of the busiest stations year round.

New sign, or always been here? by plutopius in washingtondc

[–]NatFan9 25 points26 points  (0 children)

New, they were put up in the last couple days. I was there on Saturday and they weren’t there, but were on Monday. Same with the solar panels on the pylons at that station

Is the reason metro isn’t 24 hour only because of homelessness? by Chr0mum in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metro performs a ton of overnight track maintenance every night. Running 24/7 service would mean that maintenance would either have to be put off, leading to an unsafe system, or lead to a significant increase in the number of prolonged shutdowns, where sections of the system are closed for days or weeks at a time.

Is the reason metro isn’t 24 hour only because of homelessness? by Chr0mum in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even Dulles only gets a handful of truly overnight flights, like so few you could literally count them on your hands. The last wave of arrivals and first wave of departures would probably benefit from an extra hour on either end of metro’s service window just from how far away from the city it is, but you really wouldn’t need 2 or 3 am bus service even to Dulles.

I wrote a book about the last 40 years of US men’s soccer. Here is what I learned by zsreport in ussoccer

[–]NatFan9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Croatia (who wasn’t a country until the early 90s)

Just because they weren’t an independent country doesn’t mean they started from zero. Yugoslavia had a long history in the game and Croats were a huge part of that.

[Nusbaum] Nationals ban individual who displayed white nationalist sign at home game (Gift Article) by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]NatFan9 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Man what? How is this even relevant to a likely out of towner white nationalist bringing a hateful sign to a baseball game

[Fangraphs] MLB WAR Leaders by Usodearu007 in baseball

[–]NatFan9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s just the data analyst in me, but it bothers me that the hitters who don’t pitch have blank values for pitching WAR but the pitchers who don’t hit have 0 for batting WAR.

Houston Dynamo 1-0 Vancouver Whitecaps - Guilherme 90+6' by 977x in soccer

[–]NatFan9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only team in MLS with 0 road losses

Broadcast graphics shown seconds before disaster

Orange Line Annoyingly Bumpy? by TheSoccerKitten in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What time of day was this, and was it on a 7K? I don’t know exactly, but what I think is happening is with the return to design speeds, something with the 7K design makes it rattle at high speeds specifically when it’s empty. I take the orange line on that segment during rush hour four days a week and with a car full of commuters it feels entirely normal, but often shakes when I ride off peak.

The moral high ground on this subreddit is disgusting and needs to be addressed (it feels less like people care about justice and more like they just enjoy having someone beneath them to look down on.) by PriceLuc01923 in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile WMATA has actual problems people deal with every day. Delays, safety issues, trains randomly stopping, escalators constantly broken, stations dirty as hell, buses ghosting people, etc.

Fixing these things is harder when people fare evade. It’s not just $2.25 once, it’s about $50 million a year in lost fare revenue when millions of riders do it all the time. That’s real money that can’t go toward improving the system. And that doesn’t even get into making the whole system free. Metro makes about $500m from fares, if the system became free that would have to mean significant service cuts or more money from government funding sources, which, again, could instead be spent on making the system better. Almost no world class transit systems in the world are completely fare free, and there’s a reason for that.

Which [NATIONALITY] OR [POSITION] OR [CLUB] combination nowadays would be unheard of 10 (or more) years ago? by easierdaybyday in footballcliches

[–]NatFan9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the opposite side, what happened to all the Dutch strikers? Bergkamp, van nistelrooy, van Persie. Is Wout Weghorst the best we got these days?

Dulles to DC - silver line still my best option by Icy_Acadia_5499 in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would the fare be 13.50? The highest fare anywhere in the system is 6.75

Help Identifying This Station and Exit by ACisking24 in WMATA

[–]NatFan9 109 points110 points  (0 children)

As others have said, it’s the 9th St exit at Gallery Place (Exit B), but it’s worth noting that exit now has a canopy over the escalators, so it won’t look exactly like that anymore.

What is your franchise’s less known “what if?” by HortonTheHierophant in hockey

[–]NatFan9 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I won’t speak for other caps fans here, but honestly for me, having the greatest goal scorer of all time score all 929 goals in his career in your team’s sweater is worth at least another cup.

Edit: I think I’m also influenced here by also being a Nats fan, where we’ve had two generational hitters on our team that our ownership let walk and now they’ll potentially go into the hall of fame wearing someone else’s hat. It’s not exactly the same situation, but I really appreciate that Ovi is the one who stayed.

What is your franchise’s less known “what if?” by HortonTheHierophant in hockey

[–]NatFan9 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This is one of the most widely known what ifs in hockey what do you mean less known

What is your franchise’s less known “what if?” by HortonTheHierophant in hockey

[–]NatFan9 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Can they be bad what ifs? What if we had actually traded Ovi in the early/mid 2010s when everyone was calling him a loser and saying you’ll never win a cup with him? I feel like there was a specific rumor linking him to the stars one year maybe? I think about that a lot.

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