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The Seals Are Broken

Jun 072012

srs miika 400x400 150x150 The Seals Are Broken WMATA, the local transit authority, has had a pretty bad rep over time for their interactions with passengers on Twitter. This week, however, there has been an amazing, nay shocking, development – The @WMATA twitter feed has not only had the usual automated alerts of system issues, but whoever is driving it has been actively responding to tweets, and giving more details than just the bare bones of the past.

This change in interaction on Twitter has bemused regular watchers of the #WMATA and @WMATA feeds, but I think I’ve finally discovered the deep dark truth about what has happened!

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June 7, 2012 Posted by Styx River Gynoid on June 7, 2012 3D Artwork, Image Gallery Tagged with: Cthulhu, WMATA No Responses »

@FixWMATA Does Metro On Wheelz

Apr 012012

One of the problems with trying to promote disability awareness is getting people to see things from a disability perspective. It can be hard for people to understand issues without the same frame of reference used raising them.

Oh, I know there are plenty of “simulator” methods out there used to try and show people how disabilities themselves “feel”, but that’s only part of the story – how we interact with our environment as people with disabilities also needs to be explained.

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April 1, 2012 Posted by Styx River Gynoid on April 1, 2012 Disability Tagged with: Disability, WMATA No Responses »

A thought from the Styx River Platform: Too Personal?

Mar 182012

It’s been a stressful few weeks when it comes to issues surrounding Metro, the mass-transit system operated in the Washington DC area by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

We’re coming off the back of a series of public meetings discussing the proposed fare hikes on the system, as well as continued disruptions, both planned and unplanned.

So people’s tempers have been getting short. Understandable really, given the historical trends on these matters.

Escalator issues, elevators, trains going out of service, unidentified track problems causing trains to be emptied at stations – it’s a long list that, viewed sequentially, gives the impression of a system in operational crisis.

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