Despite it’s many problems, Metro is still an architectural masterpiece.
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April 28, 2003
Holy Zarquon
Oh, man… the trailer for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is now on the Amazon.com home page…
I might be one of those geeky people who stands in line for days waiting to see this movie.
February 16, 2005
It’s too bad they had to install those sound baffles in most of the coffers. And the stains from leakage are unfortunate. And of course they ran out of money and had to switch to a less-expensive architecture than the wonderful coffers for the newer, outlying underground stations…
But nothing is as annoying as the fact that most of the escalators are broken on my route on any given day. Farragut West 17th street exit always has at least one down escalator. It looks like they are taking the Washington Posts’s suggestion and turning them off and calling them ‘stairs.’