“It’s very sparse.”The camera crews came, and a reporter tweeted, “Only reporters showed up for @WMATA’s Metro Store opening,” beside a broken-heart emoji. Ellen Duke was here to buy some Metro lip balm, which came in the flavors of “Orange Crush Orange Line,” “Red Hot Red Line,” and her personal choice, “Minty Mint Silver Line.”“I have no complaints,” Duke said about her daily commute on the Red Line. One of them was 23-year-old Patrick Hubbard, owner of the Instagram page @ratemymetro, which involves Hubbard describing each Metro station he visits. “Farragut North, Red Line: Wow, what a place,” reads one post. Greene held up the phone on which she’d read all that Internet vitriol and took a photo of the growing line.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2018 22:33 UTC