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Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
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"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson
wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians. You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number 214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #82  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
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Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson

wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians.

I was being facetious, in defense of your original point. And on
this secondary point, you are about the only person in the DC area
who considers stations like Franconia and Vandorn pedestrian-friendly.

It militates against your advocacy for more suburban metro coverage;
e.g. I've repeatedly cited the possibility of a Brown Line on the
original proposed route, extended to serve Annandale and loop around
to the north or south parallel to the Beltway; to no avail in terms
of positive feedback here. Obviously if the one or two militant
anti-car people in NOVA don't want such a line it's not likely anyone
else does, either.

You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which

case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number

214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

You're arguing in terms of loopholes, I'm arguing in terms of de facto
results guaranteed by what is considered practical for most people,
like MOST pedestrians (who don't want to walk two miles from their
destination station to their office in Tysons every day) or like most
tourists who DRIVE into DC (for the issue of entering DC via outlying
Metro stations would be moot otherwise; logically, the recommendation
to do so applies only to tourists who are driving in. That said, you
are right that it is a tax on these people for not having the "sense"
to go Greyhound.)

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro

stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay

an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

The reality is that this requirement is the latest step in ensuring
that
SmartTrip is so ubiquitous that it not only legitimizes its use as a
tracking tool, but legitimizes driving to the Metro station as the
most
popular and acceptible way of utilizing the Metro system, further
dragging us down the road of a BART-like commuter system in the course
of government efforts to promote an entirely tangential homeland
security
device (SmartTrip).

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

See my objection above, this does not apply to tourists who would have
no reason to use said stations except to park, and who have no choice
but to pay $5 or, thinking in terms of de facto practicality, drive
all the way to their hotel, which is what your type of thinking here
will result in all of them doing. The idea of trying to discourage
tourists from driving to DC period is outrageous, anyway; what more
acceptible use of a car is there than a road trip from rail-free
Podunk
to the nations capital?

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.

You need to read the article cited in the Post (Sunday, Outlook).
They quoted a Mt. Pleasant restaurateur for his take on the rule
in question and that was the quoted directive (and not the first
time I've heard tell of it.)
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #83  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson

wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians.

I was being facetious, in defense of your original point. And on
this secondary point, you are about the only person in the DC area
who considers stations like Franconia and Vandorn pedestrian-friendly.

It militates against your advocacy for more suburban metro coverage;
e.g. I've repeatedly cited the possibility of a Brown Line on the
original proposed route, extended to serve Annandale and loop around
to the north or south parallel to the Beltway; to no avail in terms
of positive feedback here. Obviously if the one or two militant
anti-car people in NOVA don't want such a line it's not likely anyone
else does, either.

You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which

case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number

214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

You're arguing in terms of loopholes, I'm arguing in terms of de facto
results guaranteed by what is considered practical for most people,
like MOST pedestrians (who don't want to walk two miles from their
destination station to their office in Tysons every day) or like most
tourists who DRIVE into DC (for the issue of entering DC via outlying
Metro stations would be moot otherwise; logically, the recommendation
to do so applies only to tourists who are driving in. That said, you
are right that it is a tax on these people for not having the "sense"
to go Greyhound.)

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro

stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay

an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

The reality is that this requirement is the latest step in ensuring
that
SmartTrip is so ubiquitous that it not only legitimizes its use as a
tracking tool, but legitimizes driving to the Metro station as the
most
popular and acceptible way of utilizing the Metro system, further
dragging us down the road of a BART-like commuter system in the course
of government efforts to promote an entirely tangential homeland
security
device (SmartTrip).

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

See my objection above, this does not apply to tourists who would have
no reason to use said stations except to park, and who have no choice
but to pay $5 or, thinking in terms of de facto practicality, drive
all the way to their hotel, which is what your type of thinking here
will result in all of them doing. The idea of trying to discourage
tourists from driving to DC period is outrageous, anyway; what more
acceptible use of a car is there than a road trip from rail-free
Podunk
to the nations capital?

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.

You need to read the article cited in the Post (Sunday, Outlook).
They quoted a Mt. Pleasant restaurateur for his take on the rule
in question and that was the quoted directive (and not the first
time I've heard tell of it.)
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #84  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
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Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson

wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians.

I was being facetious, in defense of your original point. And on
this secondary point, you are about the only person in the DC area
who considers stations like Franconia and Vandorn pedestrian-friendly.

It militates against your advocacy for more suburban metro coverage;
e.g. I've repeatedly cited the possibility of a Brown Line on the
original proposed route, extended to serve Annandale and loop around
to the north or south parallel to the Beltway; to no avail in terms
of positive feedback here. Obviously if the one or two militant
anti-car people in NOVA don't want such a line it's not likely anyone
else does, either.

You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which

case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number

214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

You're arguing in terms of loopholes, I'm arguing in terms of de facto
results guaranteed by what is considered practical for most people,
like MOST pedestrians (who don't want to walk two miles from their
destination station to their office in Tysons every day) or like most
tourists who DRIVE into DC (for the issue of entering DC via outlying
Metro stations would be moot otherwise; logically, the recommendation
to do so applies only to tourists who are driving in. That said, you
are right that it is a tax on these people for not having the "sense"
to go Greyhound.)

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro

stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay

an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

The reality is that this requirement is the latest step in ensuring
that
SmartTrip is so ubiquitous that it not only legitimizes its use as a
tracking tool, but legitimizes driving to the Metro station as the
most
popular and acceptible way of utilizing the Metro system, further
dragging us down the road of a BART-like commuter system in the course
of government efforts to promote an entirely tangential homeland
security
device (SmartTrip).

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

See my objection above, this does not apply to tourists who would have
no reason to use said stations except to park, and who have no choice
but to pay $5 or, thinking in terms of de facto practicality, drive
all the way to their hotel, which is what your type of thinking here
will result in all of them doing. The idea of trying to discourage
tourists from driving to DC period is outrageous, anyway; what more
acceptible use of a car is there than a road trip from rail-free
Podunk
to the nations capital?

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.

You need to read the article cited in the Post (Sunday, Outlook).
They quoted a Mt. Pleasant restaurateur for his take on the rule
in question and that was the quoted directive (and not the first
time I've heard tell of it.)
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #85  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson

wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians.

I was being facetious, in defense of your original point. And on
this secondary point, you are about the only person in the DC area
who considers stations like Franconia and Vandorn pedestrian-friendly.

It militates against your advocacy for more suburban metro coverage;
e.g. I've repeatedly cited the possibility of a Brown Line on the
original proposed route, extended to serve Annandale and loop around
to the north or south parallel to the Beltway; to no avail in terms
of positive feedback here. Obviously if the one or two militant
anti-car people in NOVA don't want such a line it's not likely anyone
else does, either.

You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which

case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number

214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

You're arguing in terms of loopholes, I'm arguing in terms of de facto
results guaranteed by what is considered practical for most people,
like MOST pedestrians (who don't want to walk two miles from their
destination station to their office in Tysons every day) or like most
tourists who DRIVE into DC (for the issue of entering DC via outlying
Metro stations would be moot otherwise; logically, the recommendation
to do so applies only to tourists who are driving in. That said, you
are right that it is a tax on these people for not having the "sense"
to go Greyhound.)

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro

stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay

an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

The reality is that this requirement is the latest step in ensuring
that
SmartTrip is so ubiquitous that it not only legitimizes its use as a
tracking tool, but legitimizes driving to the Metro station as the
most
popular and acceptible way of utilizing the Metro system, further
dragging us down the road of a BART-like commuter system in the course
of government efforts to promote an entirely tangential homeland
security
device (SmartTrip).

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

See my objection above, this does not apply to tourists who would have
no reason to use said stations except to park, and who have no choice
but to pay $5 or, thinking in terms of de facto practicality, drive
all the way to their hotel, which is what your type of thinking here
will result in all of them doing. The idea of trying to discourage
tourists from driving to DC period is outrageous, anyway; what more
acceptible use of a car is there than a road trip from rail-free
Podunk
to the nations capital?

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.

You need to read the article cited in the Post (Sunday, Outlook).
They quoted a Mt. Pleasant restaurateur for his take on the rule
in question and that was the quoted directive (and not the first
time I've heard tell of it.)
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #86  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to
extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside.
Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible
as cheaply as possible.

Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson

wrote:
No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good
citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to
be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants.

Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations
are accessible to pedestrians.

I was being facetious, in defense of your original point. And on
this secondary point, you are about the only person in the DC area
who considers stations like Franconia and Vandorn pedestrian-friendly.

It militates against your advocacy for more suburban metro coverage;
e.g. I've repeatedly cited the possibility of a Brown Line on the
original proposed route, extended to serve Annandale and loop around
to the north or south parallel to the Beltway; to no avail in terms
of positive feedback here. Obviously if the one or two militant
anti-car people in NOVA don't want such a line it's not likely anyone
else does, either.

You can ride without a SmarTrip card.
And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which

case,
if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number

214365,
and they have no idea what name goes with that card.

You're arguing in terms of loopholes, I'm arguing in terms of de facto
results guaranteed by what is considered practical for most people,
like MOST pedestrians (who don't want to walk two miles from their
destination station to their office in Tysons every day) or like most
tourists who DRIVE into DC (for the issue of entering DC via outlying
Metro stations would be moot otherwise; logically, the recommendation
to do so applies only to tourists who are driving in. That said, you
are right that it is a tax on these people for not having the "sense"
to go Greyhound.)

Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a
legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed.
No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the
city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only!

SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro

stations
until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station
parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay

an
*extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not
allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking
will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is
required then.

The reality is that this requirement is the latest step in ensuring
that
SmartTrip is so ubiquitous that it not only legitimizes its use as a
tracking tool, but legitimizes driving to the Metro station as the
most
popular and acceptible way of utilizing the Metro system, further
dragging us down the road of a BART-like commuter system in the course
of government efforts to promote an entirely tangential homeland
security
device (SmartTrip).

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

See my objection above, this does not apply to tourists who would have
no reason to use said stations except to park, and who have no choice
but to pay $5 or, thinking in terms of de facto practicality, drive
all the way to their hotel, which is what your type of thinking here
will result in all of them doing. The idea of trying to discourage
tourists from driving to DC period is outrageous, anyway; what more
acceptible use of a car is there than a road trip from rail-free
Podunk
to the nations capital?

Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country,
ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question
"persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they
belong" in a given area. According to Washpost.

The closest thing I can find to that on their website is:

... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member
Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3
to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and
animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ...

That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning
people who are just walking on the sidewalk.

You need to read the article cited in the Post (Sunday, Outlook).
They quoted a Mt. Pleasant restaurateur for his take on the rule
in question and that was the quoted directive (and not the first
time I've heard tell of it.)
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #87  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

Wrong, The reason for the SmartCard at the parking lots is to
eliminate the handling of cash by the parking lot attendants.

If you had read the media reports you would have learned that
WMATA did an audit and found it was losing thousands of dollars
from pilferage by the employees that worked for the contractor
that was operating the parking lots.

The operation of and collecting of parking fees is the only part
of WMATA where people do cash transaction outside of there sails
offices.

--
================================================== ====================
Ever wanted one of these John R Cambron
http://205.130.220.18/~cambronj/wmata/ or
Hebron MD USA

http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/
================================================== ====================
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #88  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

Wrong, The reason for the SmartCard at the parking lots is to
eliminate the handling of cash by the parking lot attendants.

If you had read the media reports you would have learned that
WMATA did an audit and found it was losing thousands of dollars
from pilferage by the employees that worked for the contractor
that was operating the parking lots.

The operation of and collecting of parking fees is the only part
of WMATA where people do cash transaction outside of there sails
offices.

--
================================================== ====================
Ever wanted one of these John R Cambron
http://205.130.220.18/~cambronj/wmata/ or
Hebron MD USA

http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/
================================================== ====================
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #89  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

Wrong, The reason for the SmartCard at the parking lots is to
eliminate the handling of cash by the parking lot attendants.

If you had read the media reports you would have learned that
WMATA did an audit and found it was losing thousands of dollars
from pilferage by the employees that worked for the contractor
that was operating the parking lots.

The operation of and collecting of parking fees is the only part
of WMATA where people do cash transaction outside of there sails
offices.

--
================================================== ====================
Ever wanted one of these John R Cambron
http://205.130.220.18/~cambronj/wmata/ or
Hebron MD USA

http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/
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Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
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"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people

from
parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them

on
foot, by bike, or by bus.

Wrong, The reason for the SmartCard at the parking lots is to
eliminate the handling of cash by the parking lot attendants.

If you had read the media reports you would have learned that
WMATA did an audit and found it was losing thousands of dollars
from pilferage by the employees that worked for the contractor
that was operating the parking lots.

The operation of and collecting of parking fees is the only part
of WMATA where people do cash transaction outside of there sails
offices.

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