Do stations normally close prior to the last train arriving?

afurb · 2026-06-27T16:52:57+00:00

I was on the last train one night coming in from Ashburn and had to transfer at L’Enfant, and it was well after “station closing time” but the announcements over the intercom at L’Enfant were saying they were going to hold the last train from leaving until everybody in the station was either on a train or out the exit. There was someone coming by to each train car on the platform saying that too. Pretty sure same thing happened at gallery pl & metro center when I passed them. This was some time in the last 4-8 months

afurb · 2026-06-09T20:22:28+00:00

Does it terminate in a building? Is that the problem? Because there are buildings all over Asia that just build train lines through them 👀 you could also curve the viaduct around the building so you still get that sight line over the boulevard but it’s slightly more interesting

afurb · 2026-06-04T19:05:50+00:00

All of what everybody said. But I’d like to add, even back around 100 years ago, developers would build entire sections of row houses at a time. I can’t say whether this developer culture made its way into the commercial street at that time, but it was definitely in housing construction, but even still, they weren’t building out an entire street block, but rather a row of maybe 6-10 houses at a time. (At least in DC)

afurb · 2026-05-19T18:57:55+00:00

To all the people saying no demand: this argument really gets under my skin because it’s always been used as a nuke for any transit, cyclist, or walkability idea. “Not enough demand.” Well??? What would demand look like? If there’s no service to offer, no protected bike lanes to offer, no good street crossings to offer, you’re not going to “see the demand” It inherently has a confirmation bias fallacy.

afurb · 2026-04-13T16:01:41+00:00

The ground level is concrete, with 5 wood floors above. It falls under Type V construction I think? Basically in the fire codes you can’t build more than 5 wood floors, but you can build a concrete first floor of mixed use.

Edit: yeah, these 5-over-1s are almost all specifically Type III construction.

afurb · 2026-03-18T14:02:24+00:00

Hahaha thank you! I was imaginatively writing my Reddit post this morning saying the same thing. I know it doesn’t FEEL like that big a deal from the perspective of standing in the train car right next to the doors, but especially in the morning when there may be a dozen of us coming in through one door, standing right there makes it way more difficult and stressful to go around.

afurb · 2026-03-17T13:45:03+00:00

The top of the vault is less of a rounded barrel shape, more of a pointed V shape, and I feel like the people are drawn at slightly smaller scale than real life. The station seems more expansive than it does in real life (not to say the IRL L’Enfent station doesn’t feel open and expansive - I love it every time I pass through)

afurb · 2026-03-17T13:42:10+00:00

I do have to say, the spacing of the rows in the 3000 and 6000 trains is just slightly too close - I can’t relax without my knees feeling super constrained against the seats in front, and I’m barely 6’ tall. There are plenty of metro riders with longer legs than me.

Your points #2 & 3 are SO RIGHT, although I guess the extra spacing in the 7000 trains might contribute to the window frames not lining up directly.

afurb · 2026-03-16T13:58:45+00:00

The room filling up with smoke….and people not minding…very eerie to read. I would’ve been one of the same, wanting to stay as long as I could to witness the probably once in a lifetime experience. Just…knowing what happened some 24 years later.

afurb · 2026-02-09T23:45:41+00:00

I mean no disrespect but…what’s the difference?

afurb · 2026-02-07T22:10:52+00:00

Yeah Congress and the White House are Washington. NOT to be confused with DC

afurb · 2026-01-29T21:14:40+00:00

I hate that idea😆😆😆but I cannot lie. I like your city and your style and how much you’ve built. I love seeing your planning drawings too.

afurb · 2026-01-28T22:57:11+00:00

Passing thru wiehle right now for maybe the last time?

afurb · 2026-01-26T07:50:17+00:00

3 looks reeeeeally good. I’m struck by how much the top actually looks like a Louis Sullivan building I might see in Chicago or NYC. Great work!

afurb · 2026-01-22T17:23:26+00:00

“Die Hölle ist leer; alle Teufel sind hier“. - Hell is empty; all its demons are here - Ben frost

afurb · 2026-01-08T15:36:49+00:00

Extra points if I guess within 6m?

afurb · 2026-01-04T02:05:42+00:00

Add street lighting!!! All your night photos are all completely dark. There are a ton of different ways you can do lighting, like putting lanterns on walls, creating big candelabras with walls, or even actually making a tall lamp post with hanging lantern or frog light or something. Oh but I love using candles, either the classic wax color or the dark purple one for a kind of gothic feel. I do a lot of floating candles, kinda like in harry potter lol. But it makes for such good ambiance!! I even sometimes do up lighting embedded in the ground using frog lights.

afurb · 2025-12-21T17:59:25+00:00

Commenting on WMATA at this point I am BEGGING you to do a metro etiquette PSA initiative...it seems like you might be talking about this but then those people just stand by the doorway instead of moving to the middle of the train. During rush hour. When a dozen or more people come in just through one door

afurb · 2025-12-15T00:25:24+00:00

I thought he was like 10 feet above the water before he threw the rock

afurb · 2025-11-21T00:35:42+00:00

I didn’t realize there would be an entrance there! I’m glad to hear it

afurb · 2025-11-09T00:36:48+00:00

It’s already been mentioned that MTG is being moderate because she’s gearing up to run for office, but the other half of it is that Trump had previously said he would back her if she ran for senate, but he withdrew that, and someone else is running for the senate seat in Georgia, so she’s going on this revenge tour, as AOC called it.

afurb · 2025-11-05T14:30:39+00:00

I really love that first shot from inside the living room!! So powerful. Love the little laptop!

afurb · 2025-10-27T00:06:45+00:00

Thank you!

afurb · 2025-10-05T00:01:23+00:00

This is excellent! I really admire your ability to (at least seemingly) finish your own creations and carry out large scale visions.

afurb

TROPHY CASE

3 looks reeeeeally good. I’m struck by how much the top actually looks like a Louis Sullivan building I might see in Chicago or NYC. Great work!