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I grew up in DC and moved to NYC and it’s painful to compare the two systems, DC’s is a total embarrassment. It was designed to take tourists to museums and go
by CPLX 3y ago
I grew up in DC and moved to NYC and it’s painful to compare the two systems, DC’s is a total embarrassment.
It was designed to take tourists to museums and government workers from suburban parking lots to work in the morning and evening. That’s it.
The two fatal design flaws are lack of express trains and stations that are high ceilinged and deeply buried so it takes like 14 minutes to get from the tracks to the street.
It’s barely a subway it’s more like a odd suburban light rail hybrid that happens to run into an actual city.
- epistasis 3y agoOk, but realize that a lot of the readership here is in California, and the DC Metro is a far far bigger step up over our systems than it is from the DC Metro to, say, Tokyo. There were three and four minute headways between trains in DC! This is just incomprehensible technological advancement for Californians.
- snowwrestler 3y agoWell yeah, compared to NY, DC itself is mostly an odd suburb. The entire region only has like 5 buildings over 30 stories tall; most are in the 15-story range or lower. Of course the NY subway is denser and runs more frequently. DC is also not flat like NY. Some Metro stations are deeply buried in hills, but a bunch are shallow and many are actually above ground.