This is ridiculous. Basically I can't use the Metro on the weekend for the next month??? (I live near Gallery Place-Chinatown and Archives-Navy Memorial and use the Red Line a lot on the weekends to visit friends, go out to eat, go shopping, etc. My major destinations are Dupont Circle, Woodley Park, Cleveland Park, Van Ness, and Friendship Heights.) Yes, I can walk to some of these places, but not in bad weather, schlepping groceries/shopping bags, etc. And even for me, walking to Friendship Heights would take a while.

Is this a conspiracy by the DC taxi drivers or something?

I am getting so sick of this.

Metro could do this track work Friday night to early Sunday morning or something like that. At least carve out SOME time over the weekend that we can safely plan to take the Metro.

Otherwise, Metro, forget you. Seriously, I guess you don't need my revenue on weekends.

I am used to weekend track work, and normally the inconvenience is minor. But the track work causing delays on Saturday, February 23, 2008 on the Red Line was inexcusable.

What should have been a 20 minute trip downtown turned into a monumental wait on the Metro platform at Bethesda, followed by the train going out of service and another monumental wait at Friendship Heights.

The trains were crowded. The station managers broadcasted inaccurate information on when the next trains were arriving and in which direction they were traveling in. The entire process felt like a mess.

As a worker paid on an hourly basis, your delays cost me an hour's worth of wages which I will never be able to replace.

I am extremely disapponted with Metrorail weekend service on the Red Line. Either improvements should be implement immediately, or my money should be refunded and my time from work lost should be compensated.

GOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOOOOOORD! Can't you finish this crap??? OK, I don't know of ANY other city with this much trouble with their subway/Metro/T/BART/WHATEVER! FIX IT!!!!!!!!!! Inefficiency is why you all raised the dang metro rates. I swear that the people who run the Metro are just wasting time and money. I'm getting sick of this. CLOSE it for ONE whole weekend and GET IT DONE!

Acceptance is the final phase, right?

We should just accept the fact that Metro is useless any time outside of weekday rush hours. If you lower your expectations (don't expect to use it at all) you won't be constantly disappointed.

WTF??!?!?!? I hate Metro. I already need to wait a bazillion minutes every weekend for service. This crap has gone on long enough. People should just boycott Metro and then let them see a loss of revenue.

What are those of us living in Cleveland Park, Dupont and Woodley supposed to do?!?!

Are we just supposed to stay home???

Weekends are when people need to GET THINGS DONE. WE, apparently unlike Metro, actually work all week and NEED the weekend service to get errands accomplished. I em so tired of this. I hope they bankrupt themselves already.

ok. so what the administration is saying is you want everyone to drive.

We get it.

Gradually the federal gov't will make sure Metro is so bad that everyone will drive and the oil companies will make yet more money.

Gee, what a suprise.

The delays this weekend were worse than the delays last weekend, somehow.

"Virginia Railway Express is reminding its riders not to horde their old green and orange Free Ride Certificates"

You want the word "hoard" there.

I too would like to say that I think this is rediculous. We just had a switch replacement, and we had that debacle last weekend where 3 out of 5 lines were screwed up royally through downtown. Could they not have replaced some of these switches when the trains were already severely limited the past few weekends? Kind of like shutting down South Capitol Street...make Metro awful for 2 or 3 weekends a year and get all the work done then. But these "minor" delays that are always half an hour every single weekend are a little rediculous.

This won't help the late night crowd, since it doesn't run past midnight I don't think, but for those near Van Ness, Cleveland Park, and Woodley Park, the L2 bus is a decent alternative for getting downtown on these track work weekends. All and all it wasn't so bad when I tried it yesterday. Now those people on Wisconsin Avenue...I feel for them since their busses have to go through Georgetown...

Woodley Park brings up an interesting idea - why doesn't metro use (and promote the heck out of) a shuttle bus to follow whatever lines have track work on the weekends. For example, this weekend a Red Line shuttle from Rockville or Shady Grove down to Farragut North. Traffic is lighter on the weekends, so that would still be faster than the 20 min delays on metrorail for those who rely on it.

Metro loves to advertise the 20-something-B bus as the "Orange Line with a view" - why not have a Red/Green/Blue/Yellow line with a view, that stops only at rail stations and makes up for the loss of service underground?

Joe in SS brings up a great idea! Weekend traffic in this area really isn't that bad on routes into and out of the city (Beltway and interstates outside the Beltway are a different story). I can see Connecticut right out my window and I only see heavy traffic around 5:30 to 7:30 ish on weekends...and even then thats NOTHING compared to weekday mornings when its stop and go from the Zoo all the way to Calvert Street.

I'd recommend more than 1 shuttle bus route. First route would serve outside the Beltway stations and then run express to downtown via some route other than Wisconsin to Van Ness to Connecticut. Second Route could run from Grosvenor or Bethesda to downtown via Wisconsin, Van Ness, and Connecticut. DuPont stops would be relocated to R Street and N Street (to allow busses to use the tunnel...nothing would kill the shuttle bus idea more then making it go around the circle). All busses would make downtown stops at Farragut North, Metro Center, and Gallery Place (to allow riders to get to all 5 metro lines directly...making them transfer to the Red at Farragut North so they can ride one stop to the Orange at Metro Center won't be popular). Heck, might as well run it to Union Station and Judiciary Square too...that way most people would have a 1 seat ride. You could even operate a third "super-express" route from Shady Grove straight to downtown since that route is all highway.

Of course this all makes too much sense for Metro tho.

So every other train is fine, but not when every train is 20 minutes apart. It seems like just running trains 20 minutes apart on the normal route should have given plenty of leeway for the single tracking. It is rediculous to have to wait 10 minutes for a train, get off loaded and then wait 20 more minutes to continue on your trip. This just seems like horrible planning to me.

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