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Have you used Metro during off-peak hours lately? Headways are 15-20 minutes, and trains are often PACKED thanks to the long waits. The late-night Friday/Saturday night trains are cash cows for the agency. They're not held to any sort of schedule, and riders pay rush hour fares for them.

If anything, it's the off-peak daytime trains that are the most wasteful/empty, or the "against the flow" rush hour trains (for which riders pay the same PotP fare as everyone else). Trains to Glenmont are almost empty once they pass Union Station... (Of course, they still need to run, so that there are enough trains at the end of the line to meet the inbound demand.)

by andrew on Feb 3, 2011 2:14 pm • link • report

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