It’s your last chance to submit ideas for MetroGreater!
The time to submit ideas to MetroGreater is almost up. If you have an idea for a small way to improve Metro (rail, bus, or paratransit), submit it by Friday night!
Image from Patrick R.‘s submission.
We’ve gotten over 1,300 ideas (wow!) And while 1,200 of them are all suggesting putting “walk left, stand right” signs on the escalators (kidding — that was only submitted 33 times), we’ve got a great diversity of ideas, from involving street artists to beautify stations to wayfinding signs on the ground to announcements about moving to the back on buses. And that’s just from the last few days.
After submission ends, Greater Greater Washington, the Coalition for Smarter Growth, and WMATA will filter the ideas to identify those that meet the contest criteria, including:
- doable in 6 months or less
- cost less than $100,000
- not cost much on an ongoing basis
- not affect operations, safety, or violate any rules
A jury will then pick ten finalists, and you’ll all be able to vote in August on the winner. If your idea is a winner, finalist, or honorable mention, you’ll get bragging rights and cool prizes.
Besides submitting ideas, you can help us better evaluate them by adding comments on ideas you think are great, terrible, or anywhere in between.
For ideas that don’t meet the criteria or don’t get selected for some reason, we’ll also try to do some posts here talking about why they couldn’t make the cut. (Maybe they’re great ideas that cost too much or take too long, and perhaps Metro will even try to do them one day!)
So get those ideas and then check back here on Greater Greater Washington (and/or follow @metrogreater on Twitter) for updates of the next phases of the contest. Thanks for all your great ideas so far!