Transit on Thursday: Mail It
It’s not like you go to the D.C. DMV to chat up the happy employees as it is.
Now, reports the Examiner, when it comes to getting rid of parking tickets, you might not have the choice.
The DMV is proposing moving all ticket adjudication services to postal mail or the Internet as a means of streamlining the process. The motivation? The number of tickets is expected to skyrocket next year as the city installs and starts using parking violation cameras on street sweepers.
They plan to phase out the in-person system by December of next year.
We should note: unless you look it up online or happen to be psychic, you currently won’t know where to take the ticket for in-person adjudication as it is. As a recent parking ticket this blogger has in her glove box shows –- no address for where to go for that service is printed on the damned things.
Photo by sciascia
Watch it rise.
It’s been a delay-ridden week in the Metro world. Forest Glenn station closed during rush hour yesterday for about 30 minutes, while Pentagon station closed for 45 minutes during rush hour Tuesday thanks to leaves on the tracks catching fire.
And you, oh fair Metro rider, know these are not an anomaly.
Perhaps it’s the fact that Metro delays will never be as annoying as sitting in all that D.C. traffic, but despite it all, according to WTOP, ridership has grown 70,000 in the last five years.
Incidentally, Metro isn’t the only alternate form of transportation up in the area. People also have started using their feet and bicycles more to get to Metro (rather, we conclude, than busing or driving) than they did five years ago, a detail that WTOP left out but Metro’s own release made sure to mention. The number of people walking to Metro stations increased 18 percent while the number of those cycling grew 60 percent.
Yellow Line = Hades
We mentioned it yesterday, and we’re mentioning it again today – don’t take the Yellow Line into Alexandria this weekend.
We’ll let you read this announcement yourself, but take the word of those who have dealt with major Yellow Line weekend track work in the past, and spare yourself the trouble.
Other weekend track work, delays
On Monday – Veterans Day – Metro trains will operate on a “special,” modified Saturday schedule while buses will do their normal, weekday thing. That means trains will open at 5 a.m., close at midnight and run less frequently.