DCist: Dupont Circle Metro Station's Escalators All Down

Nivad

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:20:25 -0500

So it's better being forced to exit at a different metro station and having to walk a mile in the heat to get back to your apartment? That makes no sense. Besides, isn't the whole point of an escalator that it turns into a perfectly functional staircase when the power is out?

voteprime

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:06:39 -0500

The station is still open, unlike when it was closed during a power outage in JuneJust to chime in, the reason they closed the station when the power was out is because there were absolutely no options other than walking up that gigantic escalator staircase in the heat. Today you had a whole other entrance with working escalators plus the elevators.

yonas

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:03:38 -0500

I wanna climb up the elevator shaft, too! I'm heading there now.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:00:38 -0500

Damn right. Nobody follows hankie codes anymore. It's all, "Where's the poppers?" Where's the romance, I want to know?

IMGoph

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:51:30 -0500

gay isn't as dupont as it used to be either.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:45:45 -0500

Spelunking in Dupont! Right. Good luck with that. Dupont isn't as gay as it used to be.

DC Guy

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:36:13 -0500

Spelunking in Dupont!

rob

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:35:40 -0500

they're back up

sticks

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:35:33 -0500

I just came out the north end and they're back up.

Guy LaDouche

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:27:54 -0500

hoofing it up that elevator would be hard. like climbing the rope in gym class hard.