The Reagan National Airport Metro station now has a Train Bridge:
“The ‘Train Bridge’ is Metro’s solution to temporarily out-of-service elevators at the National Airport station. Rather than shuttle passengers who need elevator assistance from the airport to another nearby station, Metro officials decided they could use a train to bridge the temporary gap.
And so, a train bridge is just that — an Metro train riders can use as a pass through to the other platform.”
“The station at National Airport is uniquely configured to allow such a use since it has three tracks. Metro officials simply park the train on the middle track, allowing folks to move easily between platforms depending on whether they’re headed toward Franconia-Springfield or into Prince George’s County.”
— “See Metro’s ‘Train Bridge,’” Lori Aratani, Washington Post
The new Series 7000 cars will be built by Kawasaki because Harleys cost too much. More here.
Image (“Series 7000 Metro Railcar — Artist Concept”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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John Patrick Bedell shot two law enforcement officers in Arlington Virginia yesterday, and was shot dead in return. This was more than an all-too-routine “suicide by cop” incident.
Mr. Bedell, a neatly-dressed software engineer, was at a subway station at rush hour; the officers were members of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, stationed at the entrance to the Pentagon itself, center of U.S. military operations and policy.
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Celebrate World Car Free Day on September 22nd. Commute on foot or by bike, bus or Metrorail. You can even go “Car-Lite” in a car pool.
Last year 5,445 residents of the Washington Metropolitan Area pledged to be car free for the day to improve air quality, save money, and reduce their carbon footprints. Take this year’s Car Free Pledge here.
Once again the desperate dinosaurs of the failing mainstream media ape the innovations of the Blogosphere:
— On March 21st, while riding through the millionaire-infested Hamptons, celebrity stunt journalist Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today Showdislocated a shoulder falling off his bicycle after dodging a deer.
— On March 23rd, fading sports star Lance Armstrong, desperate for publicity, crashed into the news by bumping his bike into the spandex-clad speedsters of the Vuelta Ciclista Castilla y Leónin Spain.
NotionsCapital.com gets the Yellow Jersey, though, having dislocated a shoulder a full month ago. We did not resort to using $9,000 custom-fitted Trek Madone 6.9 Pro bicycles to do it, either. In deference to the current economic downturn, we followed the lead of DC’s thrifty contingent workers and took a header on Metro station tiles (cost: $1.65). Given such enormous differences in operating costs, the conventional corporate media are clearly doomed.
Image (Anatomy of a Blogger, from Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here.Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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Currently, as a medical economy measure, we ourselves are treating swelling and bruising associated with a dislocated shoulder by using bags of frozen vegetables as cold compresses. We hope to maximize medical benefits by using the veggies in a pot of chicken soup (taken by mouth, twice daily) but have yet to find a recipe easily cooked while using just one arm.
Health consumer note: Safeway has two-pound bags of peas and corn kernels on sale, two for $4.
While good food clearly contributes to good health, the relationship between health and mass transit is more problematic. We dislocated that shoulder after slipping on those damn tiles in a DC Metrorail station.
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