Rt.234 DUMFRIES- Organized Pick-up Lines- 14JUN10
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Topic: Rt.234 DUMFRIES- Organized Pick-up Lines- 14JUN10
Posted By: Rhonda_Sluggin_1995
Subject: Rt.234 DUMFRIES- Organized Pick-up Lines- 14JUN10
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2010 at 7:34am
Rt. 234- Dumfries NEEDS TO BE ORGANIZED--Taking too long for pick-up!
Hey Family...
Time to get organized now that the expansion is complete. Let's work together to save everyone time and frustration. Summer heat is coming fast. Not rocket science here...we can follow the model from the Horner Road commuter lot as follows:
Starting on Monday morning, 14 June 2010, please begin to form lines in the designated rows as you drive into the lot. Look for the colored signs.
Flow of traffic...may need some modifications later, but for now,
after slugs climb into the car, bear left to exit the commuter lot as you are currently doing from the Pentagon pick-up.
1st lane. Pentagon pick-up line (near bus stop) Remains unchanged.
2nd lane. ALL Washington DC riders pick-up line. (Note: You should still clarify/negotiate final destination point before entering car.)
3rd lane. Crystal City pick-up lane.
4th lane. Rosslyn pick-up lane.
Should be quick, orderly, and save us all a lot of time, confusion, and morning stress...wait until you get into the office for that.
A fellow DHS slugger and I (driver) plan to have temporary signs put up by Sunday night to get us started.
P.S. OK PEOPLE...Let's be safe and UNSELFISH. SLOW DOWN and BE PATIENT while exiting. It's a change and (some folks...no you of course) will be confused until the new "lot pick-up patterns" are understood and adopted.
Thanks,
Rhonda SJ
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Posted By: singhaimark
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 9:10am
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Not a bad idea but folks will have to pick it up quick as the signs will likely be promptly removed by the PWCPD.
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Posted By: fnk1481
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 12:19pm
According to http://www.slug-lines.com/AM_Lines/dumfries_road.asp, the Dumfries Road Slug Line only goes to Pentagon, 14th & Constitution, 14th at Commerce Dept, 14th & New York, 14th & F Street, 18th Street (?), and L'Enfant Plaza. When did we add Crystal City and Rosslyn? Is the Map of Locations up-to-date?
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Posted By: ReluctantCommuter
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2010 at 8:15pm
One of the more irritating things about living in this area is the relatively high percentage of control freaks who can't leave well enough alone and dream up some brilliant plan and believe it is somehow their moral duty to impose their ideas on everyone else.
What's the problem?! The current (pre-Monday) system works just fine! The appearance of these signs created a lot of confusion and a safety hazard this morning…the woman in front of me nearly got sideswiped by an impatient driver trying to get past the clogged lanes of traffic. Why is it necessary to disperse the slugs throughout the parking lot to satisfy some lunatic’s obsessions with control and order?
Whoever executed this moronic scheme should please return to the lot and pick up what's left of your rubbish signs and bamboo sticks and overturned pots of dirt, and then maybe go home and draft up some new grass-height specifications for your homeowners association or re-arrange your shoes or do whatever it is you need to do to still the voices or fill the void, and leave decent, honest, hard-working commuters alone!
Geeze!
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Posted By: fnk1481
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 8:37am
ReluctantCommuter, I agree with you 100%. Traffic in the 234 lot has gotten worse since Monday. Thanks Rhonda_Sluggin_1995! If you are a member of your Homeowner's Association, I pray I don't live in your neighborhood.
[xx(]
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Posted By: nomi
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010 at 3:47pm
Posted By: billr
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010 at 8:36am
Dear fnk1481, Crystal City has been a destination for at least 7 years, in my experience.
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According to http://www.slug-lines.com/AM_Lines/dumfries_road.asp, the Dumfries Road Slug Line only goes to Pentagon, 14th & Constitution, 14th at Commerce Dept, 14th & New York, 14th & F Street, 18th Street (?), and L'Enfant Plaza. When did we add Crystal City and Rosslyn? Is the Map of Locations up-to-date?
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Posted By: pikomanu
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010 at 11:11am
I've been slugging out of the 234 lot since 2003 and I agree that the 234 lot slugging process is not broken, however there are ways that it could be improved in execution, especially now that it’s larger and has a bigger viability window (lot used to be pretty dead 10-15 minutes after all the parking spots were filled).
Forming two separate lines (one for Pentagon/Rosslyn/Crystal City and one for DC/14th St/L'Enfant Plaza), could alleviate some of the line problems that tend to occur from time to time. The challenge would be trying to get everyone to accept and agree to those changes, instead of trying to push some new organization via signs and poorly relayed word-of-mouth.
Most of the problems with the 234 lot actually stem from poor communication from both drivers and slugs. The most common things that tend to stall the process is:
1) Drivers who do not call out their location until they are at the front of the line. They just sit there staring blankly forward until they get to the front of the line. It speeds up the process immensely if slugs can load 2-3 cars at a time. Any more than that seems to cause confusion as to who is walking to which car, whose turn it is etc.
2) Backup of destination cars. This happens with both 14th St and Pentagon cars. For example the first 3 cars will be going to 14th St but everyone in the line is going to other destinations. Everyone just stands there, while additional cars (likely going to their destination) begin to pile up behind them. The solution to that would be for slugs further down the line to ascertain the destination of the deeper cars (if the line is long enough) and call them up. Or for pairs to break off and walk the line to the deeper cars to get the line moving again. Although this does happen from time to time I've seen this approach cause confusion as well. When there are a plethora of Pentagon cars, 14th St riders often peel off and form a “second line” further back in the lot to catch the cars coming around the corner. I've seen confusion and actually witnessed just today a lady yelling at another because they we not lined up at the usual spot for pickups (i.e. by the bus shelter). In this case having a separate line would alleviate that problem. The lot is small enough that you can see the next row over so if you’re a 14th St rider than will settle for a Pentagon ride, you could see from either queuing spot if there were any cars available in the other line.
While there are Rosslyn and Crystal City riders I'm not sure there are in large enough numbers (compared to Pentagon/14th St) that it would help to have separate lines just for those locations. But I would not be adverse to it. I slug to Rosslyn and it takes 30+ minutes off my commute to go straight to Rosslyn vice the Pentagon. If there's a Rosslyn car I jump in, but I won't stand around 10-15 minutes waiting for one, I’ll just take a Pentagon one.
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Posted By: nomi
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010 at 1:27pm
Posted By: slugger2DC
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010 at 4:01pm
This is a great idea to separate the lines however I feel as though the Pentagon line and the Washington, DC (14th St, L'Enfant, etc.) line should remain where it is. Many people have multiple locations they can go to and whatever the next car is that pulls up, they usually take it. For example, in order for me to get to my job, I can either go to the Pentagon metro, the L'Enfant metro or 14th & D Streets. Usually if I'm next in line, whatever car comes up, I jump in. To have the lines split makes people lose options and in turn you may have to wait in line longer.
I never go to Crystal City or Rossyln so I can not comment on whether or not their lines should be combined or separated. But I will say having the slug line at the entrance of the lot could back up others trying to get into the lot. People should stand at the other end of the row. That way, people can just hop in and the cars can drive out like normal.
Thanks for listening. [:)]
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Posted By: Dale H
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 7:11am
Pikomanu, is there a return from Rosslyn to 234, or do you have to go to the Pentagon to get a ride back in the afternoon?
Dale H
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Posted By: pikomanu
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 7:58am
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There is a Horner Road and 610, but no afternoon line in Rosslyn back to 234. You have to go back to the Pentagon and catch a ride there.
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Posted By: Dale H
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2010 at 10:11am
Thanks. That is what I thought. I have been slugging from Horner to Rosslyn, but live much closer to the 234 lot.
Pentagon just doesn't work for me.
Dale H
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Posted By: ReluctantCommuter
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2010 at 8:59pm
Well I see our Self-Appointed Junior VDOT Engineer Wannabe continues living the dream. Evenings in the basement with your inkjet printer, stapler, plastic wrap and bamboo sticks; mornings spent rushing around littering the commuter lot with your rubbish signs; and no doubt afternoons smugly reveling in delusions of grandeur.
So where did it all start? Bad potty training experiences? Self-esteem problems in grade school? Did mommy used to rub your little tummy and tell you how much more clever you were than the other children? And then what? Six years to graduate from some third rate college, followed by years of being passed over at promotion time? Bill O'Reilly got you all riled up?
There's a reason VDOT keeps throwing your third-grade artwork project in the trash. Can we put on our thinking caps and maybe glean a clue as to why that might be? Do you think maybe it's not a great idea to scatter pedestrians throughout a parking lot full of overly-stimulated, under-skilled, frustrated, NASCAR-driver wannabe's. Can we try real hard and imagine why that might be a bad idea? How about when it's icy and pitch black at 6:00 AM in the middle of winter? Hmmm??
Please, do yourself a favor and do all of us a favor and get some help. What with advanced techniques in counseling and modern pharmaceuticals there is a good chance they can stabilize your brain chemistry and help you work through your childhood trauma's and have you living a normal life without the need to thrust your megalomaniacal delusions of order on the rest of us.
Because quite frankly, one of these days someone's going to get hurt. And it's going to be your fault, no matter how much you wish to rationalize it in that tiny little brain of yours.
Please, just give it a rest!
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Posted By: fruitfulone
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 8:34am
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Originally posted by fnk1481
According to http://www.slug-lines.com/AM_Lines/dumfries_road.asp, the Dumfries Road Slug Line only goes to Pentagon, 14th & Constitution, 14th at Commerce Dept, 14th & New York, 14th & F Street, 18th Street (?), and L'Enfant Plaza. When did we add Crystal City and Rosslyn? Is the Map of Locations up-to-date?
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See forum here about my proposed new slug line between Rosslyn and 234: http://www.slug-lines.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11128
Slugs Unite!
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Posted By: Bodybykids
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 11:39am
How can we get permanent signs at 234. The lines need to be separated. This morning we all were backed up because cars headed for 14th didnt have riders, therefore cars could not pull forward and we had to keep yelling back. I go to Crystal City and usually have a wait. I had to keep calling back for 14th and those at the back had to keep call forward to check and make sure no one was getting a ride ahead of others.
Separating the lines would make for a faster and more organized pick up for all.
If we all become consistent, it should not take more than a week or two to get it consistent.
NEXT - Does anyone headed to 234 go down Crystal Drive, Crystal City instead of going to the Pentagon to pick up sluggers?
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Posted By: Bodybykids
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 11:48am
Its too bad that you don't like this suggestion. It works well at Horner Road and could also here and make for a quicker, smoother commute for all. I am also going to work towards getting PERMANENT SIGNS for separation of the lines.
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Originally posted by ReluctantCommuter
Well I see our Self-Appointed Junior VDOT Engineer Wannabe continues living the dream. Evenings in the basement with your inkjet printer, stapler, plastic wrap and bamboo sticks; mornings spent rushing around littering the commuter lot with your rubbish signs; and no doubt afternoons smugly reveling in delusions of grandeur.
So where did it all start? Bad potty training experiences? Self-esteem problems in grade school? Did mommy used to rub your little tummy and tell you how much more clever you were than the other children? And then what? Six years to graduate from some third rate college, followed by years of being passed over at promotion time? Bill O'Reilly got you all riled up?
There's a reason VDOT keeps throwing your third-grade artwork project in the trash. Can we put on our thinking caps and maybe glean a clue as to why that might be? Do you think maybe it's not a great idea to scatter pedestrians throughout a parking lot full of overly-stimulated, under-skilled, frustrated, NASCAR-driver wannabe's. Can we try real hard and imagine why that might be a bad idea? How about when it's icy and pitch black at 6:00 AM in the middle of winter? Hmmm??
Please, do yourself a favor and do all of us a favor and get some help. What with advanced techniques in counseling and modern pharmaceuticals there is a good chance they can stabilize your brain chemistry and help you work through your childhood trauma's and have you living a normal life without the need to thrust your megalomaniacal delusions of order on the rest of us.
Because quite frankly, one of these days someone's going to get hurt. And it's going to be your fault, no matter how much you wish to rationalize it in that tiny little brain of yours.
Please, just give it a rest!
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Posted By: HOV3Slug
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2010 at 6:37pm
ReluntactCommuter(RC) - Let me guess, the name WrappedTight(WT) was already taken. I can only hope you're civil service and not a soldier. God knows you're not private sector.
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Posted By: Pele
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2010 at 7:34pm
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Originally posted by Bodybykids
Its too bad that you don't like this suggestion. It works well at Horner Road and could also here and make for a quicker, smoother commute for all. I am also going to work towards getting PERMANENT SIGNS for separation of the lines.
Horner Road does not have permanent signs.
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Originally posted by HOV3Slug
ReluntactCommuter(RC) - Let me guess, the name WrappedTight(WT) was already taken. I can only hope you're civil service and not a soldier. God knows you're not private sector.
I think the problem that ReluctantCommuter has is that there was no community action... Some random yahoo just went out and put up signs without any sort of thought.
Whomever wants to organize the lines needs to involve others, not just haphazardly put up signs... Some of us drive all the time and are aware of the idiosyncrasies of the parking lot... Others slug all the time and can offer input on where preferred queuing areas would be.
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Times to beat:
Horner Rd to/from Pentagon: 12 mins Without Slugs - 17 mins With slugs
Dale City exit to/from 3rd St Tunnel, D.C. 18 mins (No slugs - Holiday)
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Posted By: jewlz965
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 2:03pm
I just learned about the new lines at the 234 commuter lot this morning. GREAT IDEA!! I recall hearing something about this a few weeks back, but never heard the specifics.
For those of you critical of this and questioning why one person started the new lines without coordinating with at least one group of people, check this out:
http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/How_to_start_a_line.asp
Now, just wondering how to convince those of you who work in Crystal City to start a slug line near the Crystal Drive/12th Street intersection . . .
Safe Riding!
Julie
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Posted By: Jack Burden
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 4:51pm
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What time does the new 234 lot fill up and what is the latest you cna get slugs? Thanks.
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Posted By: louise725
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2010 at 12:15pm
I think most of us Slugs try to get as close to work and as close to home as possible when commuting. To call sluggers names and portray that someone is other than competent is very childish to me. If you do not like the way that someone is trying to start a commuter line, you should read how slug-lines.com suggest how to form a slug line. I think this suggestion was already made actually by another slugger. I don't believe that it is in anyone's interest to voice such negative and rude comments to another slugger trying to help themselves or others. What may work for you, may not work for others. I hope the moderators will take interest in how others are treated verbally when making a suggestion. If you are not happy, I believe that there are ways to express that without name calling. There are now four lines at the 234 commuter lot (Pentagon, DC, Crystal City, and Rosslyn). I have gotten a ride to Rosslyn everyday that I have gotten in the line, so it does work. It may not be the most effective at this time, but when people who normally pick up in the Pentagon line for Rosslyn start to realize that there is actually a Rosslyn line, it will get better. I see all 4 lines being used everyday and have been for at least 3 weeks or more. As far as the signs, why shouldn't 234 have permanent signs if it is possible to get them. I think we should all try to help one another and not trash each other.
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Originally posted by ReluctantCommuter
Well I see our Self-Appointed Junior VDOT Engineer Wannabe continues living the dream. Evenings in the basement with your inkjet printer, stapler, plastic wrap and bamboo sticks; mornings spent rushing around littering the commuter lot with your rubbish signs; and no doubt afternoons smugly reveling in delusions of grandeur.
So where did it all start? Bad potty training experiences? Self-esteem problems in grade school? Did mommy used to rub your little tummy and tell you how much more clever you were than the other children? And then what? Six years to graduate from some third rate college, followed by years of being passed over at promotion time? Bill O'Reilly got you all riled up?
There's a reason VDOT keeps throwing your third-grade artwork project in the trash. Can we put on our thinking caps and maybe glean a clue as to why that might be? Do you think maybe it's not a great idea to scatter pedestrians throughout a parking lot full of overly-stimulated, under-skilled, frustrated, NASCAR-driver wannabe's. Can we try real hard and imagine why that might be a bad idea? How about when it's icy and pitch black at 6:00 AM in the middle of winter? Hmmm??
Please, do yourself a favor and do all of us a favor and get some help. What with advanced techniques in counseling and modern pharmaceuticals there is a good chance they can stabilize your brain chemistry and help you work through your childhood trauma's and have you living a normal life without the need to thrust your megalomaniacal delusions of order on the rest of us.
Because quite frankly, one of these days someone's going to get hurt. And it's going to be your fault, no matter how much you wish to rationalize it in that tiny little brain of yours.
Please, just give it a rest!
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Posted By: Bodybykids
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 7:40am
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Thanks to whoever put up signs once again at 234 Lot. It seems that the separated lines are working and moving faster.
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Posted By: LedFooT
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 1:37pm
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Ridiculuous! Seperate lines mean more ppl roaming about the lot, creating a safety issue. One line has worked, does work, and will work without busy-bodies projecting their extremely minor (read trivial, trite, miniscule) issues on everyone else who has used this system for YEARS. Passing the word down the line is not an issue, ppl.
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Posted By: Bodybykids
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 2:41pm
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Where do you see people roaming the lot? I see everyone coming from their respective vehicles headed to the particular line they want to be in. If you don't want to participate, its simple, just don't. Enjoy your evening!
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Posted By: louise725
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 3:38pm
I certainly agree! WHAT IS THE PROBLEM! Are people tooooo lazy to walk a few extra steps to get in another line. The people who are against the individual lines must not commute from the Pentagon. The are a lot more than 4 lines at the Pentagon (while I do understand that they are not coming to our area). I just don't understand all the negativity. But I can bet you one thing, if even one of those negative people needed to get in "another" line to commute, they will do it, with no thanks to all of us who are trying so hard to make the 234/Rosslyn and vice versa work. If you don't like it, don't comment and don't use it. Period. Let's give the negatitivy a rest!
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Originally posted by Bodybykids
Where do you see people roaming the lot? I see everyone coming from their respective vehicles headed to the particular line they want to be in. If you don't want to participate, its simple, just don't. Enjoy your evening!
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Posted By: louise725
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 3:42pm
You obviously don't commute from the Pentagon and slug home. How many lines are there? Does it work? Yes! Exactly!! Some other negative person talked about the danger of more lines. Have you seen the Pentagon line at 234 so long that it wraps around and blocks cars and people who are trying to park and walk to the lines, and that's not dangerous!! If you are not going to commute from 234 to Rosslyn, then why are you so concerned with those that are going to commute to Rosslyn. The only thing that I can see driving this negativity is that those who pick up for the Pentagon and (back to 234 only) may feel they may lose riders if there is more than one line. But you are not the only person that needs to get to work. The only reason why someone may be "roaming" around the lot is because they don't know about other lines and are trying to find them. Passing the word down the line does not always work and I have seen and heard people ready to ponce on someone who "misunderstands" the "hollering" and jumps in front of someone. How do I know this, because it happened to me and some guy cursed at me because I went to get in a car. He was in front of me but didn't move when someone called out Rosslyn "twice" and it was loud enough for him to hear, but he was playing with his IPOD! quote:
Originally posted by LedFooT
Ridiculuous! Seperate lines mean more ppl roaming about the lot, creating a safety issue. One line has worked, does work, and will work without busy-bodies projecting their extremely minor (read trivial, trite, miniscule) issues on everyone else who has used this system for YEARS. Passing the word down the line is not an issue, ppl.
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Posted By: CJ
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 9:11pm
Well I do know that in the morning, when its dark I am concerned because I have had a couple near misses of people popping out between cars, people are hard to see in BDUs or business suits. i have no idea if they were going to these new lines but it does seem like it could have been the case. At any rate, I do commute to the Pentagon so if y'all want to form new lines whatever just don't block spaces and be mindful that at 6 am people may not see you standing in an area that has no curb. But I couldn't end this post without saying "jeez-louise" calm down, there have been some strong opinions on this topic but certainly no call for the moderators to delete posts as you suggest in another thread. Viva freedom of speech!
CJ
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Posted By: louise725
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2010 at 10:00am
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First of all, I did not suggest that other posts be deleted. I suggested that the moderators be aware of how others post and not allow for the type of comments that some members make (maybe alerting a member when they have gone "over-the-top). I still don't believe that a post by anyone should include name calling, berating others, or otherwise suggest that another member is stupid. I made this suggestion based on comments by "reluctantcommuter" and others who wrote similar posts and replies to those posts. It just "seems" to me from some of the negative posts that if a member is not going to the Pentagon from 234, then nothing else matters. There are those of us who still commute to the Pentagon because sometimes we have no other options, but I don't believe that there should only be one line. If only one line existed at all of the commuter lots, then the point of having only one line wouldn't be an issue. To make my point again about responses to posts, you suggest that "geez-Louise" should calm down. I was very calm when I wrote the other posts and am very calm replying to your post. You don't even know me or my character but you suggest that I am other than calm.
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Posted By: CJ
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2010 at 3:59pm
quote:
Originally posted by louise725
You obviously don't commute from the Pentagon and slug home. How many lines are there? Does it work? Yes! Exactly!! Some other negative person talked about the danger of more lines. Have you seen the Pentagon line at 234 so long that it wraps around and blocks cars and people who are trying to park and walk to the lines, and that's not dangerous!! If you are not going to commute from 234 to Rosslyn, then why are you so concerned with those that are going to commute to Rosslyn. The only thing that I can see driving this negativity is that those who pick up for the Pentagon and (back to 234 only) may feel they may lose riders if there is more than one line. But you are not the only person that needs to get to work. The only reason why someone may be "roaming" around the lot is because they don't know about other lines and are trying to find them. Passing the word down the line does not always work and I have seen and heard people ready to ponce on someone who "misunderstands" the "hollering" and jumps in front of someone. How do I know this, because it happened to me and some guy cursed at me because I went to get in a car. He was in front of me but didn't move when someone called out Rosslyn "twice" and it was loud enough for him to hear, but he was playing with his IPOD! quote:
Originally posted by LedFooT
Ridiculuous! Seperate lines mean more ppl roaming about the lot, creating a safety issue. One line has worked, does work, and will work without busy-bodies projecting their extremely minor (read trivial, trite, miniscule) issues on everyone else who has used this system for YEARS. Passing the word down the line is not an issue, ppl.
Louise,
It seemed to me you were upset since you used exclamation points multiple times. As I recall from grade school and school house rock videos on Saturday mornings, <sing with me here folks> "interjections-show excitement, show emotion, and are followed by an exclamation point... or by a comma when the feeling is not as strong....". So my apologies if I misinterpreted your "!!"
CJ
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Posted By: GKreamer
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2010 at 1:01pm
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Originally posted by CJ
Louise,
It seemed to me you were upset since you used exclamation points multiple times. As I recall from grade school and school house rock videos on Saturday mornings, <sing with me here folks> "interjections-show excitement, show emotion, and are followed by an exclamation point... or by a comma when the feeling is not as strong....". So my apologies if I misinterpreted your "!!"
CJ
School House Rock! Those were the best... "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill..." "Conjunction junction what's your function..."
Classic.
George
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Posted By: Pentagon1
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 8:09pm
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"Hookin up words and phrases and clauses..."
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Posted By: kristiehoward
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2010 at 8:55am
Dale,
I hear you can slug back from Rosslyn to 234-- I just started a new job in Rosslyn yesterday and I got a ride. I understand that the pickings are slim right now because no one knows about it-- but we can get it started...
Kristie
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Originally posted by Dale H
Thanks. That is what I thought. I have been slugging from Horner to Rosslyn, but live much closer to the 234 lot.
Pentagon just doesn't work for me.
Dale H
Kristie Howard
234 -- Rosslyn or Pentagon
234/Potomac Mills Patron
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Posted By: Dale H
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2010 at 7:13am
Kristie, are you the nice young lady who rode with me and my friend to Horner Road, where we switched to my car and I drove you the rest of the way to 234?
Dale H
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Posted By: sluger2010
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 6:28pm
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Originally posted by Rhonda_Sluggin_1995
Rt. 234- Dumfries NEEDS TO BE ORGANIZED--Taking too long for pick-up!
Hey Family...
Time to get organized now that the expansion is complete. Let's work together to save everyone time and frustration. Summer heat is coming fast. Not rocket science here...we can follow the model from the Horner Road commuter lot as follows:
Starting on Monday morning, 14 June 2010, please begin to form lines in the designated rows as you drive into the lot. Look for the colored signs.
Flow of traffic...may need some modifications later, but for now,
after slugs climb into the car, bear left to exit the commuter lot as you are currently doing from the Pentagon pick-up.
1st lane. Pentagon pick-up line (near bus stop) Remains unchanged.
2nd lane. ALL Washington DC riders pick-up line. (Note: You should still clarify/negotiate final destination point before entering car.)
3rd lane. Crystal City pick-up lane.
4th lane. Rosslyn pick-up lane.
Should be quick, orderly, and save us all a lot of time, confusion, and morning stress...wait until you get into the office for that.
A fellow DHS slugger and I (driver) plan to have temporary signs put up by Sunday night to get us started.
P.S. OK PEOPLE...Let's be safe and UNSELFISH. SLOW DOWN and BE PATIENT while exiting. It's a change and (some folks...no you of course) will be confused until the new "lot pick-up patterns" are understood and adopted.
Thanks,
Rhonda SJ
SLUGer2010
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