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Reason Teases DC Metro Over Busted Escalators
Apr 14th
As previously noted, the DC Metro employees are 97% black, union operated, and nothing seems to work correctly. Metro used to hire outside contractors to keep the escalators running but thought they could do it themselves cheaper and better. Shows what they know.
From Breitbart here:
Metro, the sprawling 106-mile rapid transit system that serves 3.4 million D.C.-area residents, is notorious for a lot of things, but nothing so much as the squeaky disrepair of its 588 escalators. On any given day, about one out of eight moving stairs are out of service. Yet Metro’s escalator and elevator maintenance division has a $22.5 million operating budget and 214 staffers, which works out to about one employee for every four escalators and elevators systemwide. In 1992, Metro got rid of the private contractors that repaired and maintained the system and started hiring and training its own escalator mechanics. The rationale was that government employees would do a better job for less money.
I’m so happy I don’t have to use the Metro for a commute.
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Loading ...Crappy Metro Service Explained
Mar 27th
Washington DC’s Metro system is chronically broken. The trains are dingy, mechanically unsound, and the escalators never seem to work. Ticket and parking prices are outrageous, and the commute in or out via the Metro often seems more inconvenient than a viable alternative to driving. Now we know why-
From the WashTimes here:
Ninety-seven percent of the bus and train operators at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority are black, with only six white women out of more than 3,000 drivers, according to Metro documents — a lack of diversity at one of the region’s largest employers that has led to an acknowledgment of failure in affirmative-action documents and spawned a series of lawsuits.
The homogeneity, interviews with dozens of current and former Metro workers indicated, is a proxy to a clubby culture of favoritism in which merit has little to do with promotions, and accountability, such as noting safety violations, is a career death knell. In typical examples, court and Metro records show, a black man who spent eight years in prison for dealing PCP was promoted to a high-level management position soon after his release, and whites in the same positions as blacks with far less seniority are inexplicably paid less.
“When the accident happened in 2009, I called a supervisor and said, ‘Is this the one we all dreaded?’ The way workers do their jobs, we all knew it was a matter of time. … The inept get promoted, and the capable get buried. Smart people were put in the corner, ostracized and given nothing to do,” said Christine Townsend, who sued Metro for discrimination and won.
Ms. Townsend had a college degree and a decade of experience as a schoolteacher when she was passed over for a training job in favor of a man who had taken some community college courses and, it turned out, could barely write a sentence.
Also rising rapidly to senior supervisor was Robbie O. McGee, who spent eight years in federal prison for felony distribution of PCP while on probation for another crime. He received five pay increases at Metro in two years.
Go read the whole thing. The Metro is funded by the Federal, Virginia and Maryland Governments and it is rotting with nepotism, mismanagement, and favoritism over qualified managment.
Thanks to @jtLOL
Metro derailed by culture of complacence, incompetence, lack of diversity – Washington Times: wtim.es/HeGQKG via @washtimes
— ‘Jim’ ‘Treacher’ (@jtLOL) March 27, 2012
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Metro to Install Suicide Booths
Mar 21st
A fifth person since January has suicided themselves under a DC Metro Train, snarling the commute for thousands of Metro riders. The situation has become intolerable for WMATA so they are going to make it easier and more convenient to purchase a farecard and die on their system. They are installing “Suicide Booths.” This is a technology whose time has come.
From WashExaminer here:
A man was killed Monday morning in the latest suicide attempt on the transit system.
The man, an adult, jumped into the path of the Red Line train at White Flint around 10:15 a.m. He died under the train.
Metro closed down the station briefly but reopened it shortly after 11 a.m., though trains continued to share a single track. Delays occurred along the Red Line.
The man was the fifth person struck by a Metro train in a suicide attempt so far this year.
What if all of these suicides were because gays haven’t been paying attention to the “It gets better” Youtube video series? Five gay suicides and no one is yet to be charged with a “Bias Crime” like Dharun Ravi?
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Suicide at the Van Dorn Metro
Jan 6th
Some woman’s final act in life was to become a major inconvenience to commuters in the DC Metro Area. The woman jumped in front of the train at the Van Dorn Metro Blue Line Station. Northern Virginia residents are very nice, almost to a fault. Certainly there weren’t any angry black women to throw coffee at her like in the video below while shouting “I got places to be, go die somewhere else bitch!”
From the WashingtonExaminer here:
An adult woman was killed after she jumped into the path of an inbound train at the Van Dorn Street Metro station, becoming the transit system’s first suicide of 2012.
Police believe she intentionally put herself into the path of the train based on video footage, plus accounts from witnesses and the train operator, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said.
Trains had to share a single track around the area after the 7:15 a.m. incident. Delays were occurring in both directions from the station. The train that hit her had been cleared from the area as of 9:35 a.m. but the track remained closed as the investigation and clean up continued.
Her death was the second suicide attempt of 2012.
Commuting in and out of DC is considered to be the worst commute in the nation on a good day. We sometimes get jumpers on bridges, protesters in the streets, or suicides on the railways, and this is the surest way to garner zero sympathy from anyone that has to make that commute. I don’t have to do the commute often anymore and I still say good riddance to rubbish.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Metro’s “See Something Say Something” Program Works Too Well
Jun 24th
Yet another reason to dread riding the DC Metro- I mean, besides dancing freaks like this:
From the Examiner here:
Metro has responded to 339 calls for service in the first half of 2011 involving a suspicious person, package, bomb threat or similar condition, according to the transit agency. That’s almost two cases every day.
Not all of those cases resulted in a station shutdown, of course. But some, such as the bomb scare in Rockville on June 13 closed down multiple stations as the chaos surrounding a woman’s alleged threat on a Red Line train caused riders to flee onto the train tracks, which in turn forced the agency to shut down power to the tracks.
And with most of the escalators chronically broken, good luck evacuating anyone with any sense of urgency.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Midnight Music: GoRemy – “Metro Song”
Jun 17th
Alternate title: It Could Be Worse- I Might Have to Ride the Metro
I’m not doing as much federal work these days. I’ve been moved to the commercial side of the house and frankly, that’s great. Yeah, I might have to fly to the West Coast but at least I don’t have to wake up at the crack of dawn just so I can get a parking space at the Vienna Metro and ride the germ-laden express Orange Line to the middle of broken escalator hell. Check out Remy rapping about our home town.
Check out Remy’s past hits here.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Yonathan Acts a Fool
Apr 6th
Ah, the DC Metro. Where the only good trainride is the one you take to GTFO of DC. Yonathan here discovers that he is all alone on the Metro car, and rather than enjoy the solitude that comes from not having your nose in some smelly dude’s armpit as is typical during rush hour, he decides to celebrate in his own style.
You should see how he acts when he gets onto one of the dozens of broken escalators that no one uses too.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Al Qaeda Still a Threat? Democrat Congresswoman Says No During FBI Arrest of Al Qaeda Bomber
Oct 27th
A Pakistani man became a US Citizen, moved to my neighborhood in Herndon, and then plotted to blow up the DC Metro. He was busted in a nearby hotel after providing intelligence to what he thought were contacts from Al Qaeda. That’s TWO terrorists from my own neighborhood in case anyone else is keeping count.
Meanwhile, check out the clueless woman who represents idiot liberals in Minnesota saying there are only 100 Al Qaeda terrorists left:
And on CNN:
On April 18, Farooque Ahmed, 34, drove to a hotel in Dulles, Virginia, and met with a courier who he thought was affiliated with a terrorist organization. That person “provided Ahmed with a document that provided potential locations at which future meetings could be arranged.”
On May 15, Ahmed agreed to “watch and photograph” a Washington hotel as well as a Metrorail station in Arlington, Virginia, “to obtain information about their security and busiest periods.”
Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Pakistan, “participated in surveillance and recorded video images of Metrorail stations in Arlington, Virginia, on four occasions.”
On or about July 19, in a Sterling, Virginia, hotel room, Ahmed gave a memory stick containing video images of the station to “an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda“. That same day, he agreed to assess the security of two other Metrorail stations in Arlington as possible locations of terrorist attacks.
And in a Herndon hotel room on September 28, Ahmed handed over a USB drive containing images of two Arlington Metrorail stations to a person he thought was affiliated with al Qaeda. He also provided diagrams he drew of three Arlington Metrorail stations and provided suggestions as to where explosives should be placed on trains at the stations “to kill the most people” in simultaneous attacks planned for 2011.
The article somehow neglected to mention that Ahmed is a Muslim. Or that he was doing all of this in the name of his religion and his child molesting prophet Muhammad.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Reason 962 to HomeSchool: Schools Allow Murderer to Work With At-Risk Children and Molest Them
Sep 6th
Barry Harrison murdered two men by beating and shooting them to death in 1984. In 2008 he became a free man and later was convicted for possessing cocaine and violating parole. Three weeks out of jail for that charge, he was placed with the Peaceoholics organization as part of a work release program for DC criminals. And for reasons that only liberals understand, this type of person is perfect to use in Washington DC schools for “mentorship and conflict resolution” among troubled DC teenagers. 8 days on the job at the school, Barry Harrison sexually assaulted a 15 year old girl.
The Peaceoholics have received almost 8 Million dollars in grants from the federal and DC government. Barry Harrison came to the organization on the personal recommendation of DC Councilwoman Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7). The two founders of this stupid organization that uses convicts to mentor or recruit children, Ron Moten and Jauhar Abraham, claim that the conviction of Harrison was not about sexual assault, but an attempt by Peaceoholics critics to discredit them!
From MyFoxDC here:
A D.C. Superior Court jury on Friday found a counselor with the mentoring group Peaceoholics guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at the school where he was assigned to work with troubled students.
The case came down to credibility. Harrison’s attorney insisted that the victim and three of her female classmates concocted a story that Harrison, who served time in prison for 1984 murders, used his position as a mentor to prey on female students at Spingarn High School.
Because of the age of the victim, Harrison faces a maximum of 90 years in prison on four of the five felony charges. Harrison faces additional prison time for parole violation from his 1984 conviction.
Jauhar Abraham says he sat through the entire trial. He watched the teenage accuser testify. He watched Barry Harrison testify. He doesn’t believe the accuser.
“Barry is the one paying the price, so to speak, but I really think that this is, you know, more of a personal attack really against me and Ron Moten and the Peaceoholics as a whole,” said Abraham.
Video Here:
The lame excuse that the background check only went back ten years was BS. Any call to Harrison’s parole officer would have provided all of the background checks necessary. And also, the school district completely failed to provide any of their own background checks at all. But for a school system that is failing and riddled with liberalism, blind faith in organizations that provide “conflict mediation” is all you need for a background check.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Happy I Don’t Ride the Metro
Jun 22nd
When I worked at DHS I made the decision to stop riding the Metro train in and out of DC. I was privy to threats and risks like never before and I decided that riding the Metro was no longer worth the risk of a terror attack given its level of security versus its exposure to attack. Plus, it was always crowded, too expensive, I rarely would get a seat, and the effing escalators would stay broken for months at a time. Now one of the trains had jumped the track and had a head-on with another train. As if the commute in DC didn’t suck enough…
You can see all the photos of the trainwreck here. Story here.
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