A whole lotta WMATA (50 years of DC's Metro system) [Something Interesting #75]

Alex Bemish
9 minutes ago
1 min read

I seem to have come full circle on my autism journey and remembered how much I like trains, specifically subway systems. I could do a long-winded write-up of my 35+ years of experience with my home system - the Metro system run by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) - but it would be about 70-100 pages long and I don't have the willpower or patience to do that right now in my life. Plus the 50th anniversay is this week on Friday since the system was first inaugurated March 27th, 1976, so I wanted to do something in time to celebrate.

Luckily, there's a slew of videos I've been given by the almight YouTube algorithms that do a good job in place of a long-winded short book. I'm posting a lot of them here (plus several articles, Wikipedia pages, and PDFs from WMATA themselves for more context), partially to get it out of my system but also to show my appreciation of the once-derided (for actual reasons, btw...) but now-mostly-celebrated D.C. Metro.

So all abroad and mind the doors - let's go for a ride!