Uploaded on 2014-12-07 by VMV

Connecting low income households to food retail is not new for transport systems, however, a new twist is having retail stores use the actual system to deliver food to different underserved communities via a the stations. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/too-busy-to-shop-for-groceries-pick-them-up-at-your-metro-station/2014/12/03/b4e0ac3c-7b07-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html The other making the invisible visible is the very large sources of revenue for the Metro in serving as a "backbone" for laying fiber optic and other types of cable under the Metropolitan area. The visible passenger traffic is much more visible than the Teragytes of data passing every second in the tunnels of the Metro. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14179571287666652.jpg