as a fellow long time silver-springer, i agree with this comment

Hey, I used to be in Silver Spring too for a long time growing up! I'm a DC person now since I first moved there back in 2017!

Get ready for the purple line!

2nd year Silver Springer. Trying to aim for 10

Me too, whats your favorite downtown mall store mine is 5 below for when im looking for a cheap sweet treat

Agreed!

Yeah, I hope that Cobb County, Georgia works with Atlanta to extend Marta into Cobb County.

Or even a light metro with trains and stations half as big as dc, like the Vancouver Sky train.

Likewise! When did Bright Trip meet him!? I work at Arlington National Cemetery!!! I could have met Barby!

This guy has gotten so many things wrong in this video

Yeah, tap on and tap off is only for the Metro trains, not the buses.

Even though it'd get messy with the rain/snow, I just loved those carpeted floors. That was such a 70s/80s decision and I love it.

just sucks that the older trains tend to be more dirty than the 7k. Atleast for DC metro standards of dirtiness

yah the 6ks and 7ks have always had a reputation of being cleaner and easier to maintain compared to the older fleets but the older fleets still have their place@@papagramps1257

better signage, better announcements.

@@lojosol robotic announcements be better? Lol

dont think its gonna happen

Until then Rosslyn is just a bridge a way to get to Georgetown

Coming in 2040! (maybe)

*Commonwealth of Virginia

@@MjrAlNlsc -- Well, right now to run a train from near Dulles to, say, Reagan. it would have to go by Arlington Cemetery, partly into DC and then change directions. The present switching would permit that. The reason that is import is because a strike would have for effect in DC & Maryland than Virginia. Virginians could still ride the many most of the big employment the residential parts. Indeed, it behooves Virginia to construct a new line entirely in Virginia linking the ends of the present lines.

Was gonna say the same thing, have never called it DCA in my life, it’s National lol

You're welcome!

yes this was EXACTLY what I needed for my upcoming trip from Beantown....cool shirt.

It's great!

what about new york?

​@@nekomi_chMTA? Yeah, never been there before. If I do happen to go there in New York soon, I'll give you an update if I ever do so.

Great info. Thanks for the comment!

@@BrightTripTravel Also, the original loudspeakers in underground stations are far overhead in the coffered ceilings. That means that passengers on the platforms are much closer to the echo surfaces than to the sound sources--hence the semi-intelligible announcements. Fortunately the outside speakers on the trains, right beside the platforms, present info clearly.

Good to know, thanks!

@@BrightTripTravelplease fact check your content before making a video to help others next time

We'll add it to the list!

BART, WMATA, and MARTA were all build around the same time and share similar looking trains lol

Unfortunately yeah, because they track entrance and exit in the metro

The Old Post Office (just off the Mall on Pennsylvania Ave) has the best view of the city. Just go inside and ask for access to the viewing platform. Enjoy!

If you’re talking about the metro app, you just add the smartrop card from the app to your phone’s wallet (eg Apple Wallet on an iPhone) and you can pay with it. It’s easy.

😂😥

Gotta love Geography Now. He's a great friend to Bright Trip!

I think it does

Metro is looking into late night/early morning bus service to serve the airports. They have plans but need the funding.

Barb's is the best!

We'll add it to the list!

Same with Apple Pay

@@pizzajona nice

🤣🤣

@@BrightTripTravelI guess it’s “do as I say, not as I do.” Your friend was standing on the left at 8:47

Who the fuck gives a fuck.

​@@wizard_pirate_9085Nobody gives a shit about NOT jumping the fare gates. I am not one of these people who would jump the gates like almost everyone else, but no matter how many times you try to create more of those "unbreakable" fare gates, they're STILL going to do it regardless. Nobody cares. But I do.

The population within DC proper is only 670,000 compared to Paris's 2.1 million.

Montréal's métro has a ridership close de a million per day (2023 numbers).

Yeah but DC might be "only" 700k, the agglomeration has more than 6 millions. (Paris 12M agglomeration, 15M greater metro area, and about 10M daily ridership metro and RER). You'd expect a ridership equivalent to at least 12, 15 or 20% of the agglo's population, given that DC Metro is quite developed and runs a bit in the suburbs outside DC proper. Maybe 500k is only post 2020 DC Metro ridership and it hasn't much recovered? Was it much higher in 2019? I was shocked recently by the low ridership on Chicago's L, it's as if most commuters abandoned it and disappeared. Though the lack of orbital line really doesn't help and neither does the service reductions. I've just checked : yup, it seems like DC Metro's ridership was nearly a million on workdays in the late 2010's, so around twice that of today, which gives about 15% of the agglo's population and is much more consistent with what would be expected for such a network and city. Maybe they've also reduced service too much, which doesn't really offer any incentives to go back to riding the metro, even to those that would like to ride it. WMATA better make it more attractive, as having barely over half the pre 2020 ridership will sooner rather than later become financially unsustainable, and it would be a pity to have a great network and poor service with poor ridership. Maybe review the bus and last mile connections, develop and facilitate park & ride, lower prices and suppress rush hour pricing? Anything to bring people back to the metro in droves and not in their cars. Even in Paris, the ridership is now different, with less consistent ridership between workdays due to remote working being higher on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and ridership much higher than before during weekend days. Has Montreal Metro bounced back to pre 2020 numbers? Or is there still a difference compared to 2019 ?

@@KyrilPG If I am not mistaken, métro ridership in Montréal has recovered around 80% from prepandemic numbers. In 2023, Montréal was third in subway ridership in North America, after Mexico City and New York City.

@@user-mrfrog Oh cool that's pretty good, I hope it'll recover entirely, helped and fed by the REM and its connecting passengers ! When does the next REM branch open? And the airport branch? Here I can't wait to try the new GPE's Metropolis trains for a ride. As for the metro, the ridership in Paris has recovered way more than the RATP is capable of handling given the driver shortage (it's getting better). There are still some lines (with drivers) that aren't operating at their nominal service pattern, further diminishing comfort and worsening overcrowding. When ridership is at 105% but service only at 87 or 90%, it turns a basic metro ride into a burdensome game of human Tetris (with a touch of Twister). So much that the "pushers" (like in Tokyo) are back. Recently while riding M14, the line was so busy due to a shortage of driver on M13 and overflow passengers diverting on M14, that I wasn't able to get off the train where I wanted, missing my stop several times. And you can't argue with the automation, "HAL" is in control of the train and when it wants to leave, it leaves. 🤣 I've seen short stops in my life but that's becoming ridiculous, like 5 seconds on rush hour, only barely enough for people to unload without anyone else boarding. Anyway, we'll get 34 kilometers of new lines opening this spring, of which 30km are underground metro and RER, so it should bring more capacity and help bring some breathing room to the network, at least temporarily. My closest line (M11) will double in length, so I can't wait for the opening in the coming months. Ridership is expected to more than double on this line, thankfully they've replaced the old 4-car trains by brand new fancy 5-car ones with even more capacity per car and of course open gangway. (Plus additional trains). That's nearly a 30% capacity increase per train. Bonne soirée !

There are more international flights out of Dulles

there is quite a bit of art around the system. If you go to stations like Southern Ave, Gallery Place Chinatown, West Hyattsville, New Carrollton or Silver Spring you'll see some interesting art work

The stations aren’t all that dark in person, imho. The indirect lighting is really nice.

@@michael_r Glenmont and the lower level of Metro Center are a bit dark

@@michael_r I did wonder if filming affected the reality.

We must be fast walkers 😆

To walk 1.5 miles in 15 minutes -- impossibly fast!@@BrightTripTravel

It's definitely only about 15min depending on which way you walk

Agreed!

Don't eat on the metro!

He helped create the map that led to the current map

HUH?

This isn’t true at all (and it sounds like someone who really hasn’t used that many different transit systems). First of all, it’s nowhere near “the worst in the world” (I will argue that award goes to Montreal). Beyond that, it is functionally the same as virtually every other account value-based system out there. Really the one improvement that I would make is to make it an open payment system so a SmartTrip isn’t needed, but not that many agencies (in the US, anyway) have adopted that yet, so DC isn’t really that far behind. Besides that, the biggest weakness is that the machines are old, but they are (slowly) being upgraded/replaced.

Uh…no. You’ll encounter the same people you would encounter on the streets of any large city in the country. If you really want to rub elbows with lunatics, try taking the beltway during rush hour.

Or most.

That's everywhere that requires maintenance so it's not unique to WMATA

@@blue9multimediagroup No. It is not. I've been around the world many times and they have better ways of doing maintenance than what we do here.