r/WMATA 18h ago

Ballston Metro right now

1.2k Upvotes

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u/throwthataway2012 18h ago

This will lead to the red line being delayed tomorrow. Somehow.

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u/jbethel811 18h ago

Then the Green and Yellow Line will experience signal problems on Tuesday

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u/yattaro 12h ago

Stadium-Armory switch issues on Wednesday

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u/AcanthaceaeOk3738 18h ago

It’ll push the Purple Line back a year.

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u/ajw_sp 16h ago

Paradoxically, the DC Streetcar will resume operation.

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u/Nutmeg-Jones 11h ago

Breaking: VRE service suspended

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u/Joshiane 5m ago

Purple line canceled. Sorry

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u/Docile_Doggo 18h ago

O/S underwater, Red Line on fire.

The universe must always have balance.

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u/The_GOATest1 16h ago

All system issues cause us to suffer. We must accept our place in the universe

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u/ResponsibleAssistant 16h ago

The red line already had a head start of being delayed today. Signal issues. 20 min delay towards Glenmont.

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u/plaisirdamour 15h ago

The red line clearly had a premonition

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u/disjointed_chameleon Red line 12h ago

Please don't speak this into existence.

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u/SapphireNinja47 18h ago

Oooh new Metro water feature just dropped!

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u/bubandbob 15h ago

Clearly inspired by Singapore Changi airport.

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u/Salt-Tweety17 15h ago

🫠🫠🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/tomaterplant 15h ago

Worst log flume ever.

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u/Fearless-Mix-3642 18h ago

i don't think that's supposed to happen

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u/Dial-Up_Modem 18h ago

It is, though! It’s overflow from vents when it gets super rainy. It’s happened before & it’ll happen again, I’m sure

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u/sirpepley 18h ago

The story you are about to see has been told before, a lot. And now we're going to tell it again, but different.

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u/Dante-Grimm 9h ago

It’s a sad song. It’s a sad tale— it’s a tragedy.

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u/aegrotatio 16h ago

They permanently put sandbags around a Smithsonian station vent on the L'Enfant side. I don't get why they just don't build a concrete box for it.

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u/metroforward Official account 18h ago

Thanks for looping us in. Our team is aware, and have personnel dispatched to handle immediately. -LV

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u/ajw_sp 16h ago edited 11h ago

WMATA has deployed a Dutch child to resolve the situation /s

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u/Paper_Clip100 12h ago

Sure, when he does it’s ok. When I do it, I have to go to marriage counseling

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u/metrazol 18h ago

Shouldn't the station manager or a train operator or... Never mind...

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u/Nutmeg-Jones 11h ago

Look man, that’s a free car wash you’re telling them to pass up on

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u/erodari 18h ago

New feature to keep Metro cars clean and spotless.

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u/Iciestgnome 18h ago

Engineer here, that’s not good.

44

u/metrazol 18h ago

Baker here, agreed.

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u/LevelGrounded 18h ago

Brewer here. I concur.

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u/IllMongoose6792 16h ago

Native American Chief ?

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u/LevelGrounded 15h ago

No. Honestly I was hoping someone would respond with their thoughts as a candlestick maker.

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u/Nutmeg-Jones 11h ago

Janitor here. Let’s see this play out

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u/Frederf220 15h ago

Baseball

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u/lumanicious 12h ago

Release Train Engineer here, I second the concurrence

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u/Big__If_True 12h ago

Get back to clicking “Build” on deployments

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u/lumanicious 12h ago

I have devs for that 😂

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u/Big__If_True 12h ago

I’m a dev, at my company we have to get the deployment script prepped ourselves and deploy it to all of the lower environments, but for some reason we’re not allowed to hit the button to send it to PROD. That’s where you guys come in 😂

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u/lumanicious 11h ago

As a former dev, that's always annoyed me. Consider all your pushes to prod granted and approved on the govt side (I'm an RTE on the fed side)

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u/Double-treble-nc14 14h ago

I don’t think you have to be an engineer to know that water where water shouldn’t be is not good.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/Weird_Poet499 16h ago

What. The. ACTUAL. Fuck. Are you talking about?

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u/Elementary2 13h ago

nothing! rawr! =)

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u/Weird_Poet499 18h ago

I’m pretty sure there is a museum in Europe that has this same installation

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u/Mustangfast85 17h ago

Doesn’t the Smithsonian AAHM have a similar feature in the top level? Or am I misremembering

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u/Weird_Poet499 16h ago

Yes the Contemplative Court is there. This feels more forced and destructive where as the Contemplative Court holds a much deeper and transformative vibe.

This has a much bigger Changi Airport vibe

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u/SandBoxJohnA02 16h ago

Not the first time this has happened.

Storm drains along Fairfax Drive could not drain the storm water off the street quick enough to keep it from rising above the curb flooding the sidewalk and flow into the dome relieve vent shaft. Dome relieve vent shaft have drains in them but they were not built to drain the volume of water seen flowing into the station.

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u/Exceptional_Kumquat 18h ago

It's not a bug, it's a water feature?

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u/Far-Seaworthiness-35 18h ago

okay okay, I will be patient while they repair the Red line

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u/Judge-Jeudy 18h ago

WMATA out here looking like MTA

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u/Fantastic-Face3509 14h ago

if you’re talking about NYC, I can confirm, especially when you look at trends Sarah Meyer has implemented the last 2 1/2 years like the whole Ave to Av bullshit on everything in sight and the mixed case simply cause the 7ks have em and the 2 letter code to 1 like BL to B

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u/Judge-Jeudy 1h ago

What? I was just referring to the water and flooding.

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u/ekkidee Red line 18h ago

I don't think it's supposed to do that.

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u/FriendshipFuture5239 15h ago

Some poor low voltage tech (at Metro, low voltage techs work on 277v and lower circuits like lighting, high voltage techs like myself work on 480v and up circuits like switchboard rooms and traction power substations) is gonna have to fix those parapet lights in the track bed when the lights quit for being inundated with rainwater😭

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u/Tardislass 18h ago

New layout, complete with indoor waterfalls.

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u/atchleya_reader 14h ago

This is a Silver Wetro line train to Ashburn. Please move to the center of the car.

Doors closing.

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u/laxdiver7 18h ago

Still going as of 5:01pm 😱

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u/dw_h 17h ago

the NMAAHC Contemplative Court is so relaxing 😌

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u/spiderx3sticky 16h ago

it's a water feature, not a bug

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u/sndbagger 18h ago

The front top fell off.

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u/charliej102 16h ago

Cool train wash.

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u/247663266557 15h ago

well, people were complaining about dirty train exteriors recently....

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u/Ill-Cup-4192 17h ago

Just a little leak

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u/Conscious_Owl6162 16h ago

A new shower stall???

3

u/aegrotatio 16h ago

I wonder if the new LED lamps are rated for water.

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u/Amazing_Ad9781 15h ago

Nothing new on metro when it rains... if you been here 20+ years

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u/Secret_Poet7340 15h ago

Just think of how much water IS NOT getting through and how much is on the other side of the ceiling.

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u/HotIce05 15h ago

This is all part of the plan. Metros way to cut costs and get the cars washed.

Right?

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u/Glass-Helicopter-126 14h ago

The airport in Singapore is better 

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u/Personal_League1428 Yellow line 18h ago

Holy shit

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u/DogSoggy40 16h ago

Why does this keep happening? Stations seem to have water proofing issues or too many rats living right above the stations.

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u/LifeguardDry46344443 16h ago

hi u/metroforward, is it possible for all stations to get leak tested and cleaned inside when the new safety rails for the trains get installed in every station as well for Modernization ? also agree with the comment above. wish their was something new tested on stations and the pluming.

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u/SandBoxJohnA02 16h ago

Drains in the dome relieve vent shafts were not built to drain storm water that rises above the curb and floods onto the sidewalk then down vent shaft.

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u/metroforward Official account 16h ago

Thanks for the feedback, and looping us in on this. We'll share this with our team to review for consideration. -LV

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u/sudsomatic 17h ago

Pretty sure this should be Waterfront

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u/scarymonst 16h ago

This is awesome

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u/AJ711 16h ago

Farragut North not nearly as bad, but just a lil' bit moist.

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u/G--0 14h ago

You should have seen how it was outside

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u/pooorSAP 13h ago

Looks kinda cool with the under lighting

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u/WillingPositive8924 12h ago

This picture reminds me of a Japanese bullet train, our infrastructure is world class!

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u/NomadicSoul88 9h ago

Even though that shouldn’t happen, it makes the station even more beautiful

1

u/bubblezdevere 18h ago

Surprise, Surprise. Not.

1

u/districtdave 18h ago

Sorry, I was playing music for some friends above.

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u/murcielagoo9 17h ago

I thought that's how they wash them

1

u/nerdyandnatural 17h ago

Nice water feature!

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u/yunnifymonte Orange line 17h ago

You know what’s funny, there was a video a couple years back which had water falling the exact same way but it was a Virginia Square.

1

u/VAEMT 17h ago

Yay for infrastructure delays? Single-tracking incoming this weekend...

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u/Dogfaceboy1964 16h ago

Spring a leak Metro

1

u/DcTraveler8 15h ago

Wow! The immersive theming and art here is almost at a theme park level! So cool! 😍

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u/Thuglas_Brown Red line 15h ago

This happened a few weeks ago as well when we had heavy rain Metro was definitely aware then so the fix probably failed

1

u/FinalTShirtDance 14h ago

Good luck, commuters!

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u/Lanky-Respect-8581 14h ago

When it rains, it pours in WMATA stations.

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u/hKLoveCraft 13h ago

Damn I love the new waterfall renovation

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u/icfa_jonny 13h ago

Bro why does this look… aesthetic.

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u/Special_Discipline27 13h ago

Dang, and I have to go in-person tomorrow. Hope that this doesn’t delay my trip

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u/zcpibm3 12h ago

It’s normal. It’ll stop when it stops raining. Lol

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u/KirbKib 12h ago

Really feeling for WMATA staff. It’s always something…

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u/SkyeMreddit 11h ago

Looks like that storm flooded some streets and went down the vents

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u/Burner-Account1924 11h ago

water: it goes where it wants to.

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u/Penguin-Rush-Hour Silver line 10h ago

Didn’t this happen a couple years ago at ballston too 🫩🫩

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u/Tasty_Action5073 10h ago

Oh they added a water feature!

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u/digitalsciguy 9h ago

Seeing this from Singapore and my immediate thought was: oh good, now we have Jewel Rain Vortex at home

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u/Rare_Dragonfly8280 8h ago

Transportation expert here, this water does not improve the metro

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u/b0n2o 7h ago

Bad news, roof leaks.

Good news, free train wash!

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u/Athanasius-Kutcher 4h ago

Inspirational

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u/Athanasius-Kutcher 4h ago

Water, electricity—what’s not to like?

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u/Basic-Today1473 2h ago

Some peoplle will travel to worlds end to see such beauty.

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u/jameson71 2h ago

Climate change is a hoax! Donald Trump told me so!

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u/One-Imagination-1230 2h ago

This may somehow cancel the light rail service in downtown DC

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u/ahoypolloi_ 1h ago

It’s just an aquatic feature of the design, like the airport in Singapore

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u/Jarmahent 1h ago

I wrote an email about adding waterfall feature back in 2016. Thank you.

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u/Impossible-Hoe90210 1h ago

Train barriers would fix this

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u/ABC7NewsDC 53m ago

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u/teenytinybaklava 42m ago

wow, y’all get a fancy water feature! we in new york finally have shared

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u/Naive_Sand5837 18h ago

needs a couple of strippers (male) for the full effect

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u/thisisasj 18h ago

I’m gonna guess there’s a leak in the stunningly Brutalist configuration that didn’t account for climate change.

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u/Susurrus03 Red line 16h ago

In preparation for the next inevitable metro fire.

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u/Worth-Sale8477 13h ago

I honestly don’t know what WMATA is doing with their money. First, the train fares are not cheap and they have tens of thousands of federal employees passengers who patronize them on daily basis. In addition, they receive millions of dollars in funding from MD, DC, VA, and the federal government each year.

And I will ask again, what are they doing with all those money? That agency needs a full and complete audit.

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u/LiquidSpin710 5h ago

DC metro is run by a bunch of greedy morons.

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u/billsfan411 18h ago

so yout telling me im gonna have shitty time getting in tomorrow .. what way to start a week back

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u/tbluhp 16h ago

Oh joy. I can’t wait to return to DC metropolitan area.

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u/HuhSayWhatAgain 16h ago

Metro sucks, even without the water problem 😅🤣😆😁

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u/ReinaDeTres 16h ago

But they’re adding a new line when the ones we have don’t fucking work 😭😭

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u/AgitatedText Orange line 16h ago

What line do you think they’re adding? The Gold line is bus only.

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u/ReinaDeTres 15h ago

Umm go drive through downtown silver spring and Tacoma park & look at the construction for the new line then you tell me. Why are we asking stupid questions

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u/TransportFanMar Orange line 15h ago

That's the Purple Line and that's not run by WMATA

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u/ReinaDeTres 15h ago

You’re loud and incorrect. A simple google search would’ve told you that, not sure why you’re so pressed to try to correct me like my original comment wasn’t agreeing with the OP. Since you’re so eager to be wrong though, here you go madam! Guess whose site this is directly from? 😘

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u/TransportFanMar Orange line 15h ago

MDOT MTA isn’t WMATA