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toorigged2fail t1_jeacfum wrote

Less metro than google maps... wish google maps had all of the actual multiple entrance/exit marked. Headed to a station I'm unfamiliar with then i could have saved a couple of blocks is annoying. And Metro center I feel like I don't always know which one I'm closest to.

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sprint113 t1_jeba4ur wrote

During the pandemic, I got bored and started making a custom Google map with the exact location of each entrance/elevator. I think it's particularly important for accessibility reasons because the elevator isn't always near where the station "M" is on the map and sometimes aren't very obvious where they are.

The Transit app does show where each actual station entrance is, including elevator entrances.

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toorigged2fail t1_jebah3w wrote

That's awesome, did you finish it??

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sprint113 t1_jebe9by wrote

No, it was yet another unfinished pandemic project. I did get all of the Virginia stations (except the new silver line) and most of the downtown core. I was mostly relying on Google maps/streetview to locate things. Metro has surprisingly good streetviews of most stations with 360 camera shots "walking" through the station uploaded by Metro.

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toorigged2fail t1_jebkkmt wrote

Mind posting what you have so far?

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sprint113 t1_jebm35y wrote

This is what I was working on. I'll have to look up how to import the metro lines into the map again to update it with the phase 2 silver line.

I think the most egregious elevator location I found so far was Court House.

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stupidreasons t1_jealn88 wrote

It's striking that they have this in Paris, but not here. It makes some sense -- Paris is a far bigger city with far more metro stations and users -- but the technology appears to exist.

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alatennaub t1_jecepmc wrote

Well, on this — although not really a tiny thing to fix, Metro really desperately needs more entrances for stops.

So many stops have only one or two entrances, often on opposites sides of a single block. Platforms are gigantically long relative to many metros (as if we needed more proof it's not really a metro and actually a commuter rail). Putting entrances/exists on the far end of each station can save folks a lot of time. It's always annoying when I literally walk the entire length of a station above ground just because there's no entrance on the other side

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