Baltimore Metro is Puke

I have maybe half a dozen other topics I need/what to write about. Either sad, informative, blissful, encouraging, amusing... AHHHHHHHHH! All I have is animosity for Baltimore's Metro system tonight.

ONE metro line.
FOURTEEN stops.
MILLIONS of problems.

I went to Target at Mondawmin Mall to buy a water kettle and on the way back, the metro line had stopped dead in the tracks. No announcement, no indication of repair. I went up and asked when would it be running and the nasty woman told me it wasn't, and that I just have to pay attention to the train direction b/c they're only running on one track. After 30minutes, a train finally meanders by. The entire way to Lexington stop (I think 4 stops) this miserable conductor kept slamming on the brakes and stopping for only God knows what.

I swear to Heaven, Earth, and all that there is that Baltimore is completely incompetent with the issues in front of them. On a daily basis, at least 3 escalators are malfunctioning. Trains break-down or don't show for extended periods of time. The gates for tickets are in a constant state of disrepair and display a "Touch and Go" system that I recently found out was supposed to be turned on three years ago. THREE YEARS!


I know this is ranting, but as a person lacking a vehicle, Baltimore is really turning out to be a pithole. I came in really wanting to love this tiny city... "Charm City". But everyday I walk down the alternating, sometimes broken, escalators. Then its a lottery as to whether I'll pick the functional gate or not and push in my ticket which can only be paid for with cash. And then I wait for a train which may or may not be working and watch as the conductor ducks his head out the side of the train to "check and make sure e'rytings awe-right."

Good morning Bmore! Cities around the globe have intensely more difficult systems to contend with and manage them well... Paris, Madrid, NYC, Chicago, Seoul. They have less than half the problems throughout their entire grid. Bmore... can't handle one single ridiculous metro line.

There is nothing beautiful about it. Esthetically stale, mechanically disabled, actively declining. Unfortunately, I feel the same way about this city.