July 23, 2004
No card for you!
By now, you've heard that WMATA has run out of SmartTrip cards and will have to hire parking lot attendants to accept regular Farecards until more cards can be printed up. It's a mess, sure. But worse things could happen.
They could run out of menacing homeless people on the buses.
Or perhaps there could be a shortage of tourists enforcing the "no walking or running on escalators" rule by using their big I-drive-everywhere asses to block the left sides of escalators.
Or, God forbid, they could run out of blank tickets to issue citations to 12-year-olds who bring a bag of chips on the train.
Yeah, it could be worse,
Posted by rj3 at July 23, 2004 8:49 AM
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did you actually see someone get a citation for eating on the train??
Posted by: nm at July 23, 2004 10:04 AM
You read about it all the time. Trust me, people get cited.
Posted by: randolph at July 23, 2004 10:07 AM
how can they run out of smart trip cards? they should just have metro cards the way we have in nyc..
Posted by: nia at July 23, 2004 1:41 PM