Just in case you haven’t heard the deaf-reported story about the D.C. cop riding on the hood of a squad car, you can read about it here. Reported by deaf bloggers Jason Lamberton and Ricky Taylor, the tale of joy-riding cops quickly made its way around the local blogosphere. While it’s died down, we musn’t leave our DC readers out of the loop, so here you go.
And speaking of the loop - what do you think about extending the Yellow Line? DCist broke this story about last night’s public meeting sponsored by Councilmember Jim Graham (Ward 1). WMATA is sort of entertaining the idea of a Yellow Line that extends to Georgia Ave/Petworth, Fort Totten, or all the way to Greenbelt.
Aside from having to rename Greenbelt Yellowgreenbelt, I’m cool with this idea. It’d make the Yellow Line a bit longer, earning it greater respect from its differently-colored, farther-reaching siblings.
There are two other proposals on the table, too. One is just beefing up Green Line service so people don’t have to wait up to 20 minutes during off-peak hours. The last proposal may just be the oddest.
Oh, weirdd. 5 Blue Line trains per hour would bypass Rosslyn and go straight to Greenbelt. So people could theoretically ride from Franconia-Springfield to Greenbluebelt without changing lines. Aside from making L’Enfant Plaza an utter mess where the Blue Line goes through BOTH platforms, I’m also amazed at the graphic designer’s atrocious skill in making that map. But that’s just me.
In any case, exciting times for WMATA lay ahead. One person at the meeting suggested just having the Yellow Line run through Logan and Adams-Morgan, then to a new stop in Georgetown, and then up north through Bethesda and northeast ending in Silver Spring, creating the much-loved Purple vaporLine. Too bad it takes $100 million just to tunnel a quarter-mile.
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Yes. When I saw that video with the police officers riding the hoods of their cars… I was rather surprised! I mean, I’ve never heard of officers doing that before. Maybe I’ve been sheltered in my life, but geez.
I think it’s almost as funny as the bunching of metrobuses. The bus operators get lazy and start following each other so that 3, 4 buses are driving around in packs, howling like wolves.