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Metro Installs Metro Map Upside Down
This is how it's supposed to look on Metro trains -- not like the way one WMATA employee installed it on one train.
WASHINGTON, DC — Whoops! Metro employees have been installing new maps on trains reflecting the removal of Rush+ routes, but they installed one upside down on one train -- and the photo blew up on Twitter.
WMATA soon replied to the tweet asking for the four-digit car number, and the user replied that he'd already reported it to the station manager.
The gaffe got quite a response on social media, where riders used the relatively mild mistake to tee off on chronic problems throughout the beleaguered Metro system.
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New Metro maps reflecting eliminated Rush+ routes have been installed on time! And upside down! #back2good @wmata @unsuckdcmetro pic.twitter.com/324Ea5TNwT
— David Eisner (@deisner) June 25, 2017
Map must remain readable if train flips upside down.
— Mariano A Buitrago (@nicainnva) June 26, 2017
I often tell people I live "at the bottom of the Yellow Line." Going to have to mix that up.
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) June 26, 2017
I live on the blue line now? Dag.
— Schültzie (@schultzenfreude) June 26, 2017
Never ceases to amaze me
— Maggie Pearson (@mpearson1187) June 26, 2017
Sums up metro perfectly.
— Adorable Deplorable (@StacyNrspwrisme) June 26, 2017
Image via WMATA
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