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Metropocalypse

Explosions and smoke-filled tunnels. Frustrated riders and epic commutes. This is the new normal on Washington’s Metro. Metropocalypse, a weekly podcast from WAMU 88.5, explores the unprecedented plan... Read more

Ranked #1

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Episode 18: Full Throttle Into The Past With Zachary Schrag

Episode 18: Full Throttle Into The Past With Zachary Schrag

Why are there so few seats on Metro platforms? How did D.C. home-rule advocates impact the historical trajectory of the ... Read more

10 Oct 2016

53mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 15: Report Cards, Wish Lists And Maglevs

Episode 15: Report Cards, Wish Lists And Maglevs

WMATA regularly gives itself a report card called Vital Signs, and the latest has some good news about railcar reliabili... Read more

6 Sep 2016

26mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 2: Dispatches From Day One

Episode 2: Dispatches From Day One

The Metropocalypse crew is on the scene at the Ballston station in Virginia as the "new normal" takes effect. We also as... Read more

7 Jun 2016

19mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 3: Filling The Information Vacuum

Episode 3: Filling The Information Vacuum

We talk to civic hackers who use WMATA's open data sources to share information about delays, accidents and more. The pr... Read more

13 Jun 2016

19mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 13: Metro’s Summer Of Stumbles

Episode 13: Metro’s Summer Of Stumbles

We walk through all the ways Metro is having a bad summer with Politico's Lauren Gardner, Greater Greater Washington's D... Read more

19 Aug 2016

25mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 4: Historic Blunder Of Epic Proportions?

Episode 4: Historic Blunder Of Epic Proportions?

SafeTrack hits its second phase, with full shutdowns of sections of the Orange Line forcing commuters to use bus "bridge... Read more

21 Jun 2016

15mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 17: Will Nats Fans Have To Race To The Metro Station?

Episode 17: Will Nats Fans Have To Race To The Metro Station?

As playoff baseball returns to Washington, D.C., thousands of Nationals fans could face a choice: Stay for the end of a ... Read more

3 Oct 2016

15mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 12: ‘Death Star’ With Earth Tones

Episode 12: ‘Death Star’ With Earth Tones

Next time you're in an underground Metro station, look up and around. Are you in a calming streetscape setting? Or does ... Read more

15 Aug 2016

9mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 5: Why 1986 Still Matters

Episode 5: Why 1986 Still Matters

In 1986, a federal official issued a warning: If Metro continued to expand rapidly, the system faced a future of stark c... Read more

27 Jun 2016

21mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 9: #Hotcars And Hot Work

Episode 9: #Hotcars And Hot Work

Why is the air conditioning so bad on some Metro cars? And what, exactly, is happening out on the Orange Line tracks dur... Read more

26 Jul 2016

20mins

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