The DC Metro transit system is mocked by the unfortunate locals who use it as a vortex of epic fail; trains don't run on time, air conditioning doesn't work, escalators and elevators are out, the list of suck is so long there's a Twitter account devoted to its constant failings. All you need to know about the phrase "single tracking" is that it leads to tears.
Here's a new DC Metro fail: some jackass bureaucrat decided to pay workers to rip out 1,000 pretty little flowers planted secretly by a "guerilla gardener" along the (often broken) escalators at the Dupont Circle station.
The floral terrorist behind the illicit garden was Henry Docter, the self-described Phantom Planter. He organized an online petition to try and persuade the idiots who run the Metro to "let my flowers grow."
[The Washington Post]
If you want the unvarnished story about how dysfunctional the Metro escalator situation is, check out http://t.co/EjjXeW1qtt #wmata
— Unsuck DC Metro (@unsuckdcmetro) July 7, 2013
The Dupont flowers were unceremoniously tossed into an unmarked grave out the outskirts of town. #wmata #rip
— Unsuck DC Metro (@unsuckdcmetro) July 7, 2013