Comments on: 1000-Series Metro Cars: How to Avoid Them, If You So Choose

By: Robert Morris

Robert Morris — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:08:31 +0000

Well, I'm a little late to this party--but WMATA no longer places 1000-series cars at the end of trains, so you don't even need to try to avoid that particular situation anymore. (Or, at least, that's the policy they started implementing a year ago...)

By: Metro Crash Aftermath – City Block

Metro Crash Aftermath – City Block — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:19:56 +0000

[...] Train Control system as well as the track record of the 1000 series rail cars. WCP gives you tips on how to avoid them, while the WMATA board agrees to move the cars to the middle of [...]

By: Metro Crash Aftermath « city block

Metro Crash Aftermath « city block — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:05:33 +0000

[...] Train Control system as well as the track record of the 1000 series rail cars. WCP gives you tips on how to avoid them, while the WMATA board agrees to move the cars to the middle of [...]

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:10:56 +0000

Like I said, Jamie, it's all about your personal risk calculus.

Personally, I'm going to draw my personal line on boarding 1000-series cars at the terminal ends of trains. I'm going to avoid that, and just pick a middle-of-the-train car. Not much energy investment involved there.

By: windster

windster — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:36:32 +0000

It may be harder to avoid these cars on some lines. For example, the Green line has a lot more newer cars than the Yellow line. When they debuted the new carpet models, they started on Green and are just now getting to Yellow. If you wait for a new train on Yellow, you could be waiting a long, long time.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:45:47 +0000

Given that you have about a one in 600 million chance of being killed in a metro accident, this seems like a pretty useless investment in energy. You'd increase your odds of living another day by doing things like, for example, foregoing a single car trip.

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Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:45:59 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:45:32 +0000

ooh the money train! now that sounds like an exciting car to ride on!!