by Station Aficionado
electricron wrote:Most of you act like MARC owns the Penn Line and can run its trains at any time it chooses. But MARC doesn't own the Penn Line, they can run trains only after reaching agreements with Amtrak. Weekend trains services around the country usually run at different times than weekday services.Stations are open until midnight Sun-Thurs, 3am Fri and Sat, with the actually last arrival/departure times varying by station and line. Which is fine, so long as you live within the limits of Metro service. For comparison, the NY subway is, IIRC, open 24 hours, every day (with a couple of minor exceptions, e.g., the Grand Central Shuttle).
There's usually a cry from late night partiers for trains to run much later no matter how empty the trains are. Few workers are really good at handling many late night, drunk, and demanding customers, just the fear of civil lawsuits alone is plenty of reason to wish to avoid them.
How late does DC Metro run its trains, and isn't that enough?