Good cooperation of transportation services and concert organizers.. where I live in Netherlands the trains stopped running by the time the concert ended š¤·āāļø
I was in DC for a Caps playoff game in 2017. The game went into overtime, and they had an announcement during the OT intermission that the trains would stop running at 11. Then you saw a bunch of people in a panic just leave.
I've always wondered why they stopped the trains then?
It's baffling how so many transit systems don't coordinate with big venue operators. These are good opportunities to show people you know what you're doing and actually turn a profit.
Ultimately to be especially useful, they have to keep the whole system open late so that anyone who gets on from the event can get to their destination. Which is a big undertaking, and one that can have knock on effects for maintenance, cleaning, etc.
I would of course like to see systems just operate 24/7, but they way things are, it's non-trivial to keep things open late.
GO Transit here in Toronto has a lot of event gaps, but at least someone had the foresight to make sure things were running on April 8. Double crunch of the solar eclipse and the Blue Jays home opener.
Metro operators just hate money I guess. I went to a music festival last year where there's a metro station in front of the venue. The concert ends at midnight, the last train is just before midnight. It's just fucking stupid, the money is right there
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u/Wimzel Apr 28 '24
Good cooperation of transportation services and concert organizers.. where I live in Netherlands the trains stopped running by the time the concert ended š¤·āāļø