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BumRushDaShow

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19. My earliest years in my career going down there

Reply to OrwellwasRight (Reply #18)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 05:34 PM

Aug 27

me and my coworkers would get on Amtrak and get off at Union Station and hop the Red Line to get to our work building(s), since there were several. But a few years later, we started getting off Amtrak at New Carrollton, MD and hopped the Orange Line, then switched to the Red Line at Metro Plaza, avoiding dealing with Union Station to get to the Red Line.

After that, I just started driving... to the point where my car knew the route by heart. It still took about 2.5 - 3 hours to/from Philly but I knew what times to go/leave to avoid the worst of the Beltway, where one drop of rain slows the thing down to a near stand still. But while down there, I did hop Metrobus shuttles to Silver Spring.

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Trump Administration Plans to Take Control of Washington Union Station [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 27 OP

First step in nationalizing the few rail services we have? Lonestarblue Aug 27 #1

Actually they are nationalized under Amtrak jgmiller Aug 27 #3

It's not meaningless BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #4

I meant functionally meaningless but you are right about how it helps him. jgmiller Aug 27 #5

Even "functionally", it's an overreach as the station has a contracted management corporation BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #7

"Only I can make the trains run on time!" Torchlight Aug 27 #2

Chump managed the HOTEL at Union Station for a few years FakeNoose Aug 27 #6

The hotel was at the Old Post Office BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #9

Yes I saw it once, several years ago, and I remember it had a sort of underground shopping mall FakeNoose Aug 27 #10

He took it over just before his first term started BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #12

OK that means I must have seen it before 2017 because I retired in 2017 FakeNoose Aug 27 #15

I also retired in 2017 BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #16

Beautiful building! FakeNoose Aug 27 #17

Are they going to search people for sandwiches? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 27 #8

I think this is another ploy to deter ppl from using public transit OrwellwasRight Aug 27 #11

Traffic is already bad enough down there BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #13

Don't forget MARC trains, local busses, and regional busses OrwellwasRight Aug 27 #18

My earliest years in my career going down there BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #19

Wow that is quite a commute. OrwellwasRight Aug 29 #20

Thankfully I wasn't stationed there but had to go on numerous trips down there BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #21

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has assumed full federal control of Washington DC's Union Station and has taken it over f riversedge Aug 27 #14

I swear they spend 24 hours a day thinking up ways to fuck the country up. As if tourism wasn't bad enough. Vinca Aug 29 #22