Take the September Survey on the Revised Brunswick Line schedule

How do you feel the revised Brunswick Line Schedule is working for you? You have in-person and online opportunities to provide MARC with feedback.

 

MARC is  offering several Open House events to discuss your feedback. See right pane on this web site for details.

 

Please take a few minutes to answer the online survey regarding the Brunswick Line schedule change:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VHRMTMR (Sent Tue 09/25/12 12:40 PM)

For your convenience, you can review the survey here before completing it online (click on the image to enlarge):

 

New Seating At Gaithersburg Station

MARC riders may want to thank the City of Gaithersburg (cityhall@gaithersburgmd.gov) for our new covered benches pictured below:

 

Is MARC Really a PARTY Train?

Every year since 9/11/2001, I take time to remember those who lost their lives in such a public tragedy. Sometimes it’s as simple as changing my Desktop wallpaper to “The Flag Remains” photo. This year was no exception and even though we’ve past the 10^th anniversary, I expected the local media to do a somber tribute to the victims or detail the lingering emotional effects on DC workers and residents.

To my horror, the Washington Post Express free edition took a page out of Fox network’s play book. The 9/11/12 headline story entitled “Now Arriving: The Party” wasn’t even about the celebration of life after 9/11. It was about MARC riders who drink alcohol and eat their way home from work on a regular basis.

 

 

When we get to Page 9, with the inflammatory subheading, “High-Speed Happy Hour”, writer Ted Trautman continues to slant the article based on the behavior of the “three” people he interviewed. Even looking closely at the pictures of a half-empty train, I couldn’t help feel that despite his careful wording in the article, he created a misimpression of us all as cliquey passengers who are a bunch of drunks with munchies.

Mr. Trautman, was 9/11/12 really that slow a news day in the DC area?