Twice this week, all the escalators at the Foggy Bottom Metro station have been inoperative, including yesterday during evening rush hour. Flickr user brownpau submitted this video to the DCist Video pool from the debacle on Monday, which resulted lines going on for blocks. Was it more of the same last night, Foggy Bottom travelers?

While we certainly have to be annoyed with WMATA for all the dysfunction this week, what we’re really wondering is: why are all these people waiting in such crazy lines?? Of course if you’re disabled or, perhaps, just wearing heels that give you blisters, sure, wait for the elevator at Foggy Bottom. But it was a gorgeous day outside both Monday and yesterday — why wouldn’t everyone else just truck it a few blocks over to Farragut West?