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People have identified (correctly) a number of reasons why the platform at Gallery Place for the Red Line to Shady Grove is so overloaded in the morning, but there's an additional wrinkle that I don't know has been explored: there's a major station exit at the west end of that platform, so for every person trying to transfer from the Yellow or Green Line to the Red Line, you've got at least half a dozen more just trying to exit Gallery Place at 9th Street. And the situation gets much, much worse when a Green or Yellow Line train arrives before westbound Red Line passengers who are leaving Metro at Gallery Place have reached the mezzanine or the Chinatown exit point. When that happens, you've got two waves of humanity, each getting in the other's way, and it happens at what's already a narrow chokepoint at the top of the escalators.

by cminus on Sep 23, 2011 11:44 am • link • report

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