02 Mar, 2007

Red Lights on the Red Line

Posted by: Rob Bluey In: Miscellanea



Metro, originally uploaded by Rob Bluey.

On my way into work this morning, I snapped this shot at Metro’s Gallery Place-Chinatown station. Notice the red lights on the right side of the red line platform. I asked a Metro employee why they replaced the traditional yellow lights with the red ones. She didn’t know, but told me that it would be cool if they put blue lights on the blue line.

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July 2nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm

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[...] in stations are already being replaced with brighter, more energy-efficient lighting. And as I noted several months ago, stations are switching to red lights on the granite platforms to signal arriving [...]

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