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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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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-- |
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"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-- |
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