It has been a monumental day spent here in the Washington D.C. area. I journeyed out to visit the George Washington estate located in a place named Mt. Vernon. Which is located in the state of Virginia. About 15 miles away from downtown D.C.
The rapid transit train system located here in the Washington D.C. area is named "MetroRail". I thought I would do a post because I am fascinated by urban rail systems. I have had the luxury of riding on some of the best systems in the world. There are good and bad points reviewing all of them.
Here is the Good and the Bad about Metro Rail.
The Good; The cars are big and usually clean. They don't allowing any eating on the trains, all the employees that I met were friendly, there is a lot of overlapping in the lines. Meaning that you may be able to take two different routes to get to the same destination, they have a modern way to pay to get on and off of Metro Rail, the system can't get ripped off by forgery tickets or tokens, and you pay by the distance, not the ride.
The Bad; All the underground stations look identical, they are poorly marked, and it is too dark down there, there are numerous escalators outages, also there is not enough stations in the places where they should be located, in downtown D.C.
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