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atreides1

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13. WaPo

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 10:39 AM

Jul 2013

Conducted a poll about the D.C. Metro system...and the percentage of those polled said it was a well run system...I take the Metro every day, no one I talk to says it's a "well run system"!

Sat on a train for almost two hours on Wednesday because another train had a brake problem, it was recently reported that the emergency call buttons in the train cars don't always work(this has been going on for months), elevator/escalator problems that seem to get worse instead of better.

They only polled 1100 people, out of ridership of 750,000...but Metro paid for and got the results they wanted!

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