When we were compiling our weekly roundup of your comments this week, we couldn’t help but notice that there was a whole lot of yakking about transit issues. Whether it was your overwhelming reaction to an interview with David Alpert regarding his map of Metro in 2030, applauding John Catoe’s attempts to regulate buses’ sloppy stopping, or begrudging upcoming Green and Yellow Line delays – it was the week to talk transportation.

So it’s only fitting that our Comment of the Week comes from a Metro-based thread, even if it’s one about sick people holding up the trains more often than we thought. To be honest, we couldn’t decide between the mighty trio of Bethesdaist, drewinadamsmorgan, and OldPosterKnownAsCranky, respectively:

Bethesdaist: Isn’t Metro’s definition of “sick” awfully broad? Heart attack=”sick”, accidental beheading=”sick”, so drunk you pass out on the train=”sick.”

I know it would make my delays more entertaining at least if they announced something like “we’ve got a frat boy on the floor on the Red Line.” The more you know.

drew: Metro is only taking the necessary precautions to prevent people from passing out and dying in the tunnels. The last thing they need is ghosts haunting the system. They have enough problems as it is with the doors malfunctioning, the brakes malfunctioning and miscellaneous (whatever that means).

Cranky: And I also want more info on the sick passenger designations. Because I want to know whether I should make snarky comments about some passenger who pukes on the train after reading the Express, or feel bad for a passenger who suffers a heart attack, or feel bad for fellow passengers if a passenger ate too much food basted in Olestra and is now having explosive and uncontrollable diarrhea.

That’s some good work there. Whenever you can wrap Olestra-induced diarrhea into a comment about Metro, it’s probably going to be in contention for high honors.

After the jump, more Metro talk – plus, Virginians and their love for Applebee’s.

Photo by SCH00LED.