A Travel and vacations forum. TravelBanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » TravelBanter forum » Travel Regions » USA & Canada
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

TERRORIST ATTACK ON AIRPORT IN HAWAII



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #131  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

David Lesher wrote:
You may pay cash for a BigBrother cards, but I have to wonder what
data the system keeps on hand about its use, ergo your activities.
So when the cop stops you and demands itc...what does it say?

I've never had a SmarTrip card. But I doubt it contains any
information a regular farecard doesn't. The only reason I haven't
gotten one is because I don't want to spend an extra five dollars.
And because I haven't yet used up the several $44 farecards I bought
for $40 each on the last day before they eliminated the 10% bonus.

I might eventually buy one, as I'm tired of farecards being ruined by
the rain, and of having to go to Metro Center once a year or so to
trade in all my ruined farecards and farecards with a few cents left
on them, while putting up with the lecture about what a big one-time
favor they're doing me by letting me do this.

And while we can still use farecards today, it sounds like it will
not be for long. Bus transfers are vanishing soon.

Where did you hear that?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #132  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #133  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #134  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #135  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #136  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #137  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #138  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
Greenbelt

If you had gone further south along the access road you would have
ended up on Cherry Lane, ...

Yes, I found it eventually.

Going north down the pedestrian tunnel that leads to the MARC
platforms on the north side of the CSX tracks is the Hollywood
section of Collage Park.

Yes, I've gone out that way at least a hundred times. It's very
straightforward. I'm immediately at the end of Lackawanna Street.
(Every road in that neighborhood is named for a railroad.)

But when I need to get to Greenbelt proper, rather than Beltsville or
College Park, I have to exit the station in the opposite direction,
and brave the parking lots. There's no way to get to Greenbelt proper
via Lackawanna Street without walking miles out of my way, either up
to Sunnyside or down to Greenbelt Road to cross the rail line. (Metro
ends there, but another rail line continues north.)
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #139  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

John R Cambron * wrote:
Greenbelt

If you had gone further south along the access road you would have
ended up on Cherry Lane, ...

Yes, I found it eventually.

Going north down the pedestrian tunnel that leads to the MARC
platforms on the north side of the CSX tracks is the Hollywood
section of Collage Park.

Yes, I've gone out that way at least a hundred times. It's very
straightforward. I'm immediately at the end of Lackawanna Street.
(Every road in that neighborhood is named for a railroad.)

But when I need to get to Greenbelt proper, rather than Beltsville or
College Park, I have to exit the station in the opposite direction,
and brave the parking lots. There's no way to get to Greenbelt proper
via Lackawanna Street without walking miles out of my way, either up
to Sunnyside or down to Greenbelt Road to cross the rail line. (Metro
ends there, but another rail line continues north.)
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
--multiplaza.nl.nu--
  #140  
Old July 30th, 2004, 06:16 AM
Anonymous
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default DC Metro Interconnects

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

John R Cambron * wrote:
The restrooms on the WMATA metrorail were never intended for use by
the public. I have no trouble with them being closed to the public.

Nor do I. However, plenty of people do.

If they were required to spend millions to make every station usable
to the blind and to wheelchair users, why not spend thousands to

make
every station usable by people with weak bladders, which are far

more
common than wheelchairs or blindness?

If you build restrooms and open them to all, some one has to be
paid to keep them clean. WMATA is in the business of moving
commuters not facilitating commuters.

--
================================================== ====================
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--
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
FYI: Fresno, Calif., Airport Launches Wi-Fi Internet Access [email protected] Air travel 4 May 15th, 2004 09:53 AM
WiFi free airport list [email protected] Air travel 0 March 4th, 2004 09:25 PM
Airport Opt-Out Of TSA Stan-Fan Air travel 11 February 20th, 2004 06:53 PM
Tobago and Barbados [email protected] Caribbean 8 December 29th, 2003 03:26 PM
They changed the name of Atlanta International Airport. James Anatidae Air travel 17 November 14th, 2003 04:32 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:14 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 TravelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.