Benjamin Freed joined Washingtonian in August 2013 and covers politics, business, and media. He was previously the editor of DCist and has also written for Washington City Paper, the New York Times, the New Republic, Slate, and BuzzFeed. He lives in Adams Morgan.
The 9 Kinds of Metro Haters
When Metro melts down, Twitter lights up. Here’s a typology of the different kinds of anger that riders express.
The Nostalgics
Metro was so much better when there were only three lines.
The Doomsayers
Often it seems like the apocalypse will arrive before the train…
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The Nihilists
…And sometimes it actually does.
The Comedians
These people would be out of material if the trains ran on time.
The Paranoiacs
Metro is out to get these people—personally.
The New York Exceptionalists
This would never happen on the F train!
The Wonks
It’s Washington, so there are plenty of people with smarty-pants ideas.
The Potty-Mouths
Politeness gets you nowhere, so fuck it.
The Hacks
Because of course you had to drag politics into it.
This article appears in our December 2015 issue of Washingtonian.
Benjamin Freed joined Washingtonian in August 2013 and covers politics, business, and media. He was previously the editor of DCist and has also written for Washington City Paper, the New York Times, the New Republic, Slate, and BuzzFeed. He lives in Adams Morgan.
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