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ADO about nothing much. Wan, testy, and reedy. Takoma Park, MD, USA. Here it's (mostly) dull live streams of city council meetings and quarterly checks of infrastructure matters. For just the less-dull stuff, see @dashdashado@wandering.shop.
On a wall inside a tunnel to Metrorail's Greenbelt Station, a white-on-brown sign including the text "Westbound Platform to Washington DC."
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: and last and least for now, still a Greenbelt MARC platform that's unmoored and drifting west, at least according to the signage.
Fix: "Western Platform" or "Westbound Trains."
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Outside Metrorail's Greenbelt Station in Maryland, an open gate by a pedestrian path.
Closeup of "keep gate locked at all times" sign on the gate.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still a "keep gate locked at all times" sign on a gate outside Greenbelt Station that I've never seen locked (or even closed).
Fix: remove and recycle the signage and gate.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
At Metrorail's Greenbelt station, side-by-side overhead electronic signs for two tracks, both including the text "Green Line Branch Avenue leaving 5 minutes."
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: another instance of looming crashing trains, at least according to the overhead signage.
Fix: Small Matter of Programming; when displayed times are the same, arbitrarily add a minute to one of them.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
One side of attendant booth at Metrorail's Greenbelt Station with five empty plastic literature holders.
One side of attendant booth at Metrorail's Greenbelt Station with three plastic literature holders, two holding literature other than bus schedules.
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social and @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still no bus schedules at Greenbelt Station.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Wide view of entrance to Metrorail's Greenbelt Station. No bus service map or station area map is visible.
Wide view of exit from Metrorail's Greenbelt Station. No bus service map or station area map is visible.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still no replacements for bus service maps or station area maps at Greenbelt Station.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Outside a Metrorail station, a brown pylon with the white text "Greenbelt Station." At the top of the pylon, a lone stripe, green indicating Green Line service.
At a Metrorail station entrance, a Braille placard including the raised text "Green Line; Greenbelt Station; Green Line to Branch Avenue."
At the side of a Metrorail platform, a white-on-brown sign with the station name "Greenbelt" and a lone disc, green to indicate Green Line service.
On a Metrorail platform, a pylon with the station name "Greenbelt" and a lone green disc indicating Green Line service.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still no indication of (newish) Yellow Line service on fixed signage at Greenbelt Station.
Fix: end Yellow Line service to Greenbelt.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
On the outdoor platform of Metrorail's Greenbelt Station, overhead "next train" signage with arrows pointing to the left and right that can be backlit; neither is backlit. In background, overhead electronic displays showing train departure times.
On the outdoor platform of Metrorail's Greenbelt Station, second set of overhead "next train" signage with arrows pointing to the left and right that can be backlit; neither is backlit. In background, overhead electronic displays showing train departure times.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: still dead "next train" signs at Greenbelt Station, obsoleted by overhead displays.
Fix: remove and sell every last electrical and electronic display in the system.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Quarterly check good news: Route P19 now serving Greenbelt Station Bay A, in agreement with directory signs at Greenbelt. Thanks @metrobusinfo.bsky.social and @pgcountydpwt.twitter.com.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
At the back of a bus stop shelter, a poster header "Bus Service from Greenbelt."
Detail of map on poster, including the route identifier of defunct Metrobus Route C2.
New @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: out-of-date bus information poster (for example, referencing defunct Route C2), unlabeled Greenbelt Station shelter south of entrance.
Now: remove the poster.
Later: install an updated poster.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Closeup of an eye-level, portrait-orientation electronic bus information display. Header text: "Mar 09 4:18 pm." Footer text: "Greenbelt+Bay F 3003302." Nothing appears between the header and footer.
New @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: no arrival times shown on real-time display at Greenbelt Station Bus Bay F.
Fix: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Quarterly check good news: real-time display now working at Greenbelt Station Bay E, complete with audio. Thanks @metrobusinfo.bsky.social.
Next: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still no audio from real-time display at stop 3002573 (Greenbelt Station Bay C).
Fix: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Above an attendant booth at a Metrorail station, a landscape-orientation display headed "System Status." One line starts with the text "On Time" and then has six discs of different colors; from left to right, red, orange, blue, green, yellow, and silver.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: rail lines still shown in arbitrary order on booth displays.
Fix: show the lines alphabetically.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Above an attendant booth at a Metrorail station, a landscape-orientation display headed "System Status." On one line, after the text "On Time," there are six discs of differing colors representing different rail lines.
Quarterly @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: booth displays still show trains as "on time." Given adamant Metro refusal to publish rail schedules, trains can't be on time—there's none to be on.
And…still shows all lines when all have the same status.
Fix: "All lines normal."
@wmatagm.bsky.social
On Lockwood Drive at Oak Leaf Drive in Montgomery County Maryland, a gray pylon with the stop name "Oak Leaf Drive Flash" and a blank, shattered portrait-orientation electronic display.
Quarterly @rideonmct.bsky.social check: still a dead and shattered information at Flash stop on Lockwood Drive at Oak Leaf Drive.
Closeup of an eye-level electronic bus information display at a bus stop. Header text: "Mar 09 1:42 pm." Footer text: "New Hampshire Av+Holton Ln 2000113." Four bus arrival entries appear; each has a destination, a bus line logo, and a time of arrival; none has a route number.
New @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: route numbers missing from real-time display, stop 2000113 (New Hampshire and Holton).
Fix: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
In Montgomery County, Maryland, view along Lockwood Drive. In foreground, a bus shelter, labeled "Oak Leaf Drive," with a black umbrella extending through where a side panel would go. In background at left, a sign pole topped by a Metrobus bus stop sign including the stop number 2000491.
Quarterly @rideonmct.bsky.social check: still a bus stop shelter missing a side panel, stop 2000491 (Lockwood Drive and Oak Leaf Drive).
Mosaic of two rows of three images each of bus stop shelters. The shelters are labeled, from top to bottom and left to right, A, B, C, D, F, and G. In each image one or more of a black umbrella, a gray bag, and black headphones extend through where a back or side panel would go.
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still back and side panels missing from and bent on shelters at Greenbelt Station bays A, B, C, D, F and G.
Fix: remove all shelters throughout the system; they are seemingly unmaintainable.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
At a Giant food store, top of a poster headed "Meet your neighborhood store team."
Closeup of a poster photo label with the text "perishable manager."
Closeup of a poster photo label with the text "non-perishable manager."
New @giantfood.twitter.com check: staff galleries at stores show mortal and immortal employees.
Fix: "manager of perishables" and "manager of non-perishables."
Screen shot of web page with transit options to reach 17100 Quaker Lane in Sandy Spring, Maryland. All options E ND with a 34-minute walk.
New @rideonmct.bsky.social check: app fails to use new Flex Zone 918, leading to unnecessary half-hour walks in Sandy Spring.
Fix: restore regular bus service to the area.
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Claims: the Withers/Washington original of "Just The Two Of Us" has too many singers; the José James cover has too few.
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Screen shot of a web page headed "Detailed Usage History" for a Senior SmarTrip card. One item is dated 3/7/2026 with a description of "Entry," "Metrobus" as the operator, M22 as the route, and a charge of $1.10.
Screen shot of a Ride On web page headed "Seniors and Persons with Disabilities" describing cases where folks ride for free. Page includes the text "Metrobus Routes included are: M12, M20, M22..."
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still charging Senior SmarTrip cards for M22 trips; it's a Montgomery-County-only bus. Per a @rideonmct.bsky.social web page, trips are free.
(Sequence number 15 in first image.)
Fix: remove free trip claim from the Ride On web page.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
Quarterly check good news: now a correct stop number on sign at Ride On stop 17552. Thanks @rideonmct.bsky.social.
Extra credit: accomplished with a sticker rather than an all-new sign.
View from Rockville Pike in Maryand of an empty concrete pad next to a bus stop sign.
Quarterly @rideonmct.bsky.social check: still no replacement for driver-destroyed shelter on Rockville Pike at Strathmore.
Note also: no bench, trash, recycling, or paper timetable.
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On the platform of Metrorail's North Betbesda Station, an ad panel.
Closeup of the label "WF-002" below the ad panel.
New (to this list) @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: out-of-date as panel identifiers at North Bethesda Station (starting with "WF" for "White Flint" rather than "NB" for "North Bethesda").
Fix: duct tape.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
At Metrorail's Grosvenor Station, wide view of bus bay E. In foreground, a black umbrella extends through where a side panel would go.
New @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: missing shelter side panel, Grosvenor or Station Bay E.
Fix: install and metal panel.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
On the back of a bus stop shelter, a poster headed "Bus Information from Gros enor-Strathmore Station."
Detail from map on poster, including tbe obsolete route identifiers C4 and J5.
New @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: out-of-date bus information poster, Grosvenor Staton Bay E (for example, showing defunct routes C4 and J5).
Now: remove the poster.
Later: install an updated poster.
@wmatagm.bsy.social
A bus stop shelter labeled "Tuckerman Ln." On the side of the shelter outside, notice signs.
Closeup of notice sign, including the text "RideOn extRa: SmarTrip, Cash, or Passes ONKY; No fare loading in rhe bus."
New @rideonmct.bsky.social check: out-of-date fare notice on shelter on Rockville Pike at Tuckerman Lane (and, presumably, elsewhere). ExtRa routes are now fare-free.
Best fix: remove the sign(s).
Or: reinstitute extRa fares.
A bus stop sign including the text "Ride On," "STOP ID NO. 29192," and "51 ICC P&R." There is no indication that Route 51 is a weekday-only route.
A bus stop sign including the text "RideOn," "STOP ID NO. 28280," and "51 ICC P&R." There is no indication that Route 51 is a weekday-only route.
New @rideonmct.bsky.social check: bus stop signs fail to show that Route 51 is a weekday-only route.
A bus stop shelter labeled "B." At far end of shelter, a black umbrella extends through where a side panel would go.
A bus stop shelter labeled "E." At far end of shelter, a black umbrella extends through where a side panel would go.
A bus stop shelter labeled "F." At center of shelter, a black umbrella extends through where a back panel would go.
A bus stop shelter labeled "G." At near end of shelter, a black umbrella extends through where a back panel would go.
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: missing shelter side and back panels, Wheaton Station bays B, E, F, and G.
Fix: replace with metal panels.
@wmatagm.bsky.social
