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Arthur David Olson
@dashdashado.bsky.social
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ADO about nothing much.

Wan, testy, and reedy.

Takoma Park, MD, USA.

Here it's (mostly) dull live streams of city council meetings and quarterly checks of infrastructure matters. For just the less-dull stuff, see @dashdashado@wandering.shop.
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dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: still no replacement for paper timetable and Braille placard at stop 2000269 (Northampton and Avenel).

@wmatagm.bsky.social
In Montgomery County, Maryland, at the intersection of Northampton and Avenel, a sign pole topped by a Metrobus bus stop sign and a Ride On bus stop sign. No timetable or Braille placard appears.
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly check: still an empty sign pole at Connecticut Avenue and Franklin Street. Per Street View, was for a "Chevy Chase View" sign.

Fix: remove the pole.

www.google.com/maps/@39.018...
Sign pole topped by street name signs with the text "Connecticut Ave" and "Franklin St." To the left of that pole, top of an empty green metal pole.
December 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
New @metrorailinfo.bsky.social and @rideonmct.bsky.social check: out-of-date rail system diagram (lacking Silver Line service to New Carrollton and showing full-time Yellow Line service to Greenbelt) at Silver Spring Transit Center TRiPS store.

@wmatagm.bsky.social
View through a counter window of a Metrorail system map. On the map, only Orange Line service is shown to New Carrollton Station.
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @mcdotnow.bsky.social check: now a downed flex post and two downed pedestrian signs on Blair Mill Road at Eastern Drive.

Fix: these measures having been ineffective, close the road to vehicles.
In Silver Spring, Maryland, a pedestrian island in the Blair Mill Road median. In the foreground (left to right), a downed flex post, downed pedestrian crossing signage, and an erect flex post. In the background, erect flex posts flank downed pedestrian crossing signage.
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @mdsha.bsky.social check: bug button at Riggs and Metzerott still fails to provide automated announcement of the street names, either on initial button hold or when walk signal comes on.

@govwesmoore.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @mcfrspio.bsky.social check: still a dangerous and irresponsible driver-distracting roadside message board—animated, no less—at Chevy Chase fire house.

Best fix: remove the sign.
Good: turn off the sign.
Not so good: display a static message.
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Bad: vibe coding.

Good: vibe playing.

Chuck Redd and La Lucha, "Regulator."

youtube.com/watch?v=Utf6...
December 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly check mixed news.

Good: shelter and other amenities gone from removed bus stop on Connecticut Avenue at East-West Highway (I hope for use elsewhere). Thanks @rideonmct.bsky.social.

Bad: emptied sign pole left behind.

Fix: restore the stop and amenities.
View north along east side of Connecticut Avenue south of East-West Highway. In foreground, an empty concrete pad by an empty white metal sign pole.
December 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Non-recurring @metrorailinfo.bsky.social check: hung platform display just now at Takoma Station; its back-to-back partner is okay.

Fix: remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.

@wmatagm.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
(Deponent sayeth not as to why the rail line descriptions in the @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram key were reordered from the paper version to the online version. Alas, the reordering is not alphabetical.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

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dashdashado.bsky.social Arthur David Olson @dashdashado.bsky.social · 22h
Quarterly check good news: online version of 12/31/2025 diagram includes Mt. Vernon Square as a Yellow Line destination. Thanks @metrorailinfo.bsky.social.

(This is a change from the paper diagrams already in the field which don't show Mt. Vernon Square.)

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(N=8)
December 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly check good news: online version of 12/31/2025 diagram includes Mt. Vernon Square as a Yellow Line destination. Thanks @metrorailinfo.bsky.social.

(This is a change from the paper diagrams already in the field which don't show Mt. Vernon Square.)

@wmatagm.bsky.social

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Detail from key of an online Metrorail system diagram effective 12/31/2025, including the text "Yellow Line Huntington / Mt Vernon Sq & Greenbelt." Detail from key of a paper 2025 Metrorail system diagram, including the text "Yellow Line Huntington / Greenbelt."
December 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of improved Metromail system diagram uses "Station" rather than "Station in Service" in key (since all stations are in service).

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(7/N)
Detail from key of artist's concept of an improved Metrorail system diagram, including the lone word "Station" next to black circles that represent stations.
December 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of improved Metrorail system diagram labels more stations with horizontal text (easier to read than diagonal text).

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(6/N)
Detail from artist's concept of an improved Metrorail system map, with three Green Line station names appearing in horizontal text. Detail from artist's concept of an improved Metrorail system map, with eleven Silver Line station names appearing in horizontal text.
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of an improved @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram labels the station where there is no stadium "DC Armory."

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(5/N)
Detail from artist's concept of an improved Metrorail system diagram, including the station name "DC Armory."
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of improved @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram alphabetizes rail lines in the key and, throughout, uses the two-letter line abbreviations used on all other Metro signage and literature (for consistency).

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(4/N)
Detail from key of artist's concept of improved Metrorail system diagram. Information on six lines is alphabetized by line name; each set of information starts with a disc of the line's color enclosing a two-letter abbreviation of the line's color.
December 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of improved @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram shows Farragut Crossing walking transfer and includes information on weekday-only VRE and MARC service.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(3/N)

www.wmata.com/service/stat...
dashdashado.bsky.social Arthur David Olson @dashdashado.bsky.social · 22h
Artist's concept of improved @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram shows the Takoma Park baby bump of Montgomery County. (The border between Montgomery and Prince George's has changed since the original 1976 Metrorail map.)

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(2/N)
dashdashado.bsky.social Arthur David Olson @dashdashado.bsky.social · 22h
With the 12/31/2025 @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram now available online, an updated artist's concept of an improved map. Details on differences to follow.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(1/N)

www.wmata.com/schedules/ma...
December 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Artist's concept of improved @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram shows the Takoma Park baby bump of Montgomery County. (The border between Montgomery and Prince George's has changed since the original 1976 Metrorail map.)

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(2/N)
dashdashado.bsky.social Arthur David Olson @dashdashado.bsky.social · 22h
With the 12/31/2025 @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram now available online, an updated artist's concept of an improved map. Details on differences to follow.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(1/N)

www.wmata.com/schedules/ma...
Metrorail system diagram effective December 31, 2025. Artist's concept of improved Metrorail system map effective December 31, 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
With the 12/31/2025 @metrorailinfo.bsky.social system diagram now available online, an updated artist's concept of an improved map. Details on differences to follow.

@wmatagm.bsky.social

(1/N)

www.wmata.com/schedules/ma...
Metrorail system diagram effective December 31, 2025. Artist's concept of improved Metrorail system map effective December 31, 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly check: Allstate Appliance Center has only one location (on Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring) and only serves the DMV.

Fix: DMV Appliance Center.

(Phone numbers partly obscured.)

www.allstateappliance.com
Roadside sign headed "Allstate Appliance Center." Phone numbers on the sign have been partly obscured.
December 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
New @rideonmct.bsky.social check: uninformative real-time display at stop 24904 (Piney Branch Road at Flower Avenue).

Fix: install and maintain paper timetables everywhere, then remove and sell every last expensive, unreliable electronic display in the system.
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Series-7000 @metrorailinfo.bsky.social electronic system maps updated a bit in advance of Greenbelt service by every other Yelliw Line train. As with the paper map, fails to show Mt. Vernon square as an ongoing Yellow Line destination in key.

@wmatagm.bsky.social
Aboard a series-7000 Metrorail train call, an eye-level landscape-orientation electronic display including a rail system diagram. Detail from rail system diagram, including solid green and dashed yellow bars extending along a curved path from Mt. Vernon Square to Greenbelt. Detail from system diagram key. Next to a yellow disc surrounding the black letter Y, the text "Yellow Line. Huntington / Greenbelt.
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @metrobusinfo.bsky.social check: wordy service alerts still don't fit on real-time displays.

Fix: "Route M52 delays both ways due to poor planning. Check bus locations at buseta.wmata.com/#m52."

@wmatagm.bsky.social
Closeup of a real-time, eye-level electronic bus information display. Header text: "Service Alert." Footer text: "Colesville Rd+Georgia Av 2001140." Main text: "M52 Service Alert: Customers will experience delays in both directions on Route M52 because of operator availability. Check your bus location."
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly @mcdotnow.bsky.social check: still no "walk sign is on" audio from bug button at Colesville and Wayne. (The cornermate does the right thing.)
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly #TakomaPark check: still no replacement for @mcdotnow.bsky.social or @mdsha.bsky.social flex posts on Philadelphia Avenue at Piney Branch Road.

Fix: the posts having proved ineffective, install Jersey barriers.

(Images from 6/29/2025 and today, 12/25/2025.)

@govwesmoore.bsky.social
In Takoma Park, Maryland, view across Philadelphia Avenue at Piney Branch Road. In median, unevenly spaced flex posts. Image from June 29, 2025. In Takoma Park, Maryland, view across Philadelphia Avenue at Piney Branch Road. No flex posts are visible. Image from December 25, 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
dashdashado.bsky.social
Quarterly #TakomaPark adjacent check: still an illegible (and unstickered) @mcdotnow.bsky.social "Montgomery College" sign on Philadelphia at Chicago. Back-to-back partner is in better shape.

Fix: remove the signs and pole; signs are unneeded given the large one nearby.
Closeup of white-on-green sign with the badly worn text "MONTGOMERY COLLEGE." Back-to-back partner of white-on-green sign with the not-so-badly worn text "MONTGOMERY COLLEGE." In Takoma Park, Maryland, at left, a roughly three-foot high white-on-blue roadside sign including the text "MONTGOMERY COLLEGE." In background at right, a badly worn white-on-green sign.
December 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM