December 11, 2008
Go Home Already: Dark Passages
Photo by Samer Farha
- Yeah, this is pretty much going to give me nightmares: the Post is reporting that a stopped escalator at the Gallery Place Metro station suddenly went into reverse during the morning rush hour yesterday, throwing between 10 to 15 people backward. Gah, that can happen?! Two people were treated at a local hospital for scrapes and bruises. (PLEASE NOTE: this sentence has been revised to fix an error. The escalator in question was already stopped when the incident occurred, it did not stop and then immediately go into reverse.)
- Here we go: Tommy Wells has decided to introduce legislation that would
roll backamend some of the original inaugural bar and restaurant hour rules, D.C. Wire reports. Among the possible changes Wellsis suggestingis considering are that the closing hourshouldcould be 4 a.m., and that Sunday, Jan. 18shouldcould be excluded. - Via City Desk, local blog Connetiquette Ave. has the scoop on the new 43 Metrobus line, which looks to be basically just be a shorter, rush-hour only 42 bus that won't really add much additional service.
- DCist reader Lea sends in this link to a funny transcript from a DHS blogger roundtable with outgoing Secretary Michael Chertoff
Moderator: Could you guys maybe just quickly identify yourselves so the Secretary can put a face with a name?
Question: I'm Dan Fowler from Congressional Quarterly.
Question: Rich Cooper, Security News.
Question: I'm Joel Johnson, with BoingBoing.
Secretary Chertoff: Boing Boing?
Question: That's it.
- Bloomingdale (for now) publishes an argument to bring back Truxton Circle written by Tim Sloan.
- Mayor Adrian Fenty is going to ask President Bush for a piece of the stimulus pie, reports WTOP.
- The L.A. Times says the Nationals and the Orioles are both making big offers in hopes of signing free-agent first baseman Mark Teixeira.
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"an escalator at the Gallery Place Metro station suddenly stopped and went into reverse during the morning rush hour yesterday, throwing between 10 to 15 people backward."
Holy crap - this might make me reconsider my running up and down the Rosslyn escalators every day for the last 10 or so years... getting thrown from those could be fatal.
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OMG. Can you imagine if this would've happened on the Dupont station escalators? I've tried to master them, but I just cant - they give me the heebeejeebies.
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Metrorail will operate rush hour service for 15 consecutive hours (4 a.m. to 7 p.m.), will stay open for two extra hours (until 2 a.m.). [wmata website]
i hope they realize the trains should stay open longer!
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Jerkoff doesn't know who Boing Boing is?
One would think for as much (deserved) bad press he gets there he would have heard of them. Didn't Kip Hawley brief him?
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For years, Metro's been denying that the green light under the escalators was Morlocks. Let the coverrup begin.
Let justice be served or let the heavens fall! Let the lord of the black escalators come forth. Let justice be served upon him!
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Herr MonkeyErotica,
If Justice is to served, that would be the Judiciary Square Metrorail station, not Gallery Place.
I shall add, if I was coming to work and the escalator reversed, I would take that as a sign to return home.
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I have a hard time believing that this escalator just spontaneously went into reverse. Isn't a key required to switch them on?
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STILL waiting for dcist to issue me a press pass to cover these events. Or maybe Chertoff is AFRAID of the sort of hardhitting, probing, blood-engorged questions that come from Monkeyrotica Dot Com? Like "Who won the world series in 1928?" or "Do any fornicating?"
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Holy cr@p! I amend my previous statement. After actually seeing what Chertoff looks like, my only question for him would be, "What's 'taters'', Precious?"
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over the river: as VP of pedantry around here, i'm going to point out that the name is monkeyrotica, not monkeyerotica
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And don't get him started on that whole "IMGorph" fiasco. That one was a bigger schismic mess than the Babylonian Captivity.
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i am truly surprised no one has blamed bush, terrorists, scientologists, or armageddon.
or palin.
or imus.
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"Wells is considering are that the closing hour could be 4 a.m., and that Sunday, Jan. 18 could be excluded."
Design by committee - ruining good ideas for eons.
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I was about to get on the stopped escalator @ Gallery Place when this happened. There was no operator in sight so no key had been used. After it stopped and they cleared all the people and luggage off the ground other people started climbing the stopped escalator again. But the escalator turned itself on AGAIN!
Plus, this is the escalator from Green/Yellow up to Red that had been closed for 2 months for repairs. They had just completed all the repairs when this happened.
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Speaking of things running backwards at the metro. This morning they were doing random searches, of people leaving McPherson Square metro...
When I refused the search I was told, "You will have to leave the metro." Wait, wasn't that what I was doing in the first place?
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Did the Boing Boing guy arrive by skateboard?
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Wait, seriously . . . they were searching people leaving the Metro? That seems insane.
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With the new wool seats coming online, they're worried folks might shoplift the orange "classic" Metro seat cushions.
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Holy shit I messed up monkeyrotica's name. Forgive me the both of you. At one time I used cut and paste, but I was trying to move to a higher place.
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A full transcript of Cory's interview can be found here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdfgwqj_19hf57mhdp