Nick P

Transit operations planning manager w/ #wmata. Are you a Young Professional in Transportation?

[Nick P @perfilin]

Yours truly from Metro’s West Falls Church rail yard! Thanks @aashtospeaks

[AASHTO @aashtospeaks]

Your Tuesday #transportation headlines are now available to view in the AASHTO DTU.

Check them out now ⤵️
https://t.co/4evFaPFZTH

#AASHTODTU

[Metro Forward @wmata]

UPDATE: We will continue single tracking on the Green Line between West Hyattsville Crossing and College Park through system close. Customers will experience minimal impacts to service.

Preliminary investigation shows extreme heat as the cause of a rail heat kink that derailed the wheels of a 3000-series 6-car train (pictured below). Crews will remove the train overnight to ensure the safety of our team and customers.

We have also reduced speeds to 35 mph on aboveground tracks systemwide in response to the elevated temperatures per our standard operating procedure.

We apologize for any inconvenience. Please stay hydrated and patient as you travel today.

[Metro Forward @wmata]

You help us keep our buses running!

Paying your fare allows us to increase bus frequency across the DMV, meaning we can provide not just more service, but even better service, too! 🚌

[Nick P @perfilin]

@ShawnChittle @wmata Ballston. No 🔵 on the PIDS.

[𝗙𝗜𝗔𝗚𝗢 🇩🇪 @fiago7]

I‘m currently going through my DMs here and the hospitality from Americans is INCREDIBLE 😳

The number of people who have invited me to their barbecues, offered to show me their cities, take me to sports events, on boat trips and even want to give me in their vacation homes (!!!) for a week…I am blown away.

Every single message means the world to me. This would never happen back home in Germany. Thank you USA 🇺🇸❤️

[Mariano Buitrago 🛩️ 📸 @pct_avgeek]

🇺🇸✈️ Fresh paint alert at IAD!
United Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner N91007 (Stars & Stripes livery) just landed on 01L after flight UAL3870 from Amarillo (AMA) — her very first flight out of the paint shop! 🎨
Looking sharp in that patriotic scheme. 🇺🇸
From today’s spotting… which angle wins for you? 👇
#UnitedAirlines #78710 #Dreamliner #IAD #StarsAndStripes #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting @Dulles_Airport @united

[Metro Forward @wmata]

✨ Look what made it to the National Mall! ✨

Our team worked overnight and into the morning to transport our fully restored 1000-series train and 8000-series mockup to the National Mall! 🤩

Check them out from June 25 - July 10 at the Great American State Fair, and join us as we continue celebrating 50 years of Metro!

Details: https://t.co/yxs7JuGvub

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

Something big happened early this morning!

Going to be a great Metro history and future exhibit as part of the Great American State Fair on the @NationalMallNPS

Great job by our team, contractors and partners.

See you in 10 days.

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Holy cow! This may be the weather photo of the year.

Double rainbow, orange sky over Nationals Park Friday evening.

Absolutely amazing capture by Alex Warofka

[Metro Forward @wmata]

Happy 40th anniversary to the Ballston-MU to Vienna section of the Orange Line! 🟠🚇 That includes East Falls Church, West Falls Church, and Dunn Loring. Together, these five stations served 5.9 million trips in 2025, and average 19,000 per weekday.

[Metro Forward @wmata]

Metro Bus is the backbone of transportation in this region but 70% of people who ride don’t pay the fare! 😳🚍

More fares equal more service, more routes, shorter waits, cleaner buses, and improved wayfinding tools!

When everyone pays, everyone gets a better system! 🤝 🚌

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

Metro’s Fares Pay For Service campaign is emphasizing fares are required & everyone in our community needs to follow the rules. We want to run more safe reliable 🚌 service, budgets are tight & there’s too much fare evasion. Thx Board Members & staff for your hard work. 1/3

[Nick P @perfilin]

@monkieboy99 😂

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Fidi reminds me so much of downtown Detroit (complimentary)

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Italian photographer Valerio Minato waited six years to capture the perfect alignment of the moon, a mountain, and a basilica

This image earned NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, recognizing Valerio Minato’s years of planning and precision.

[Doug Kammerer @dougkammerer]

My SUMMER FORECAST for heat. Take a look! A Strong El Nino typically means we do NOT see intense heat, but we do see more humidity and rainfall potential. All in all, it should be a pretty good summer.

[Nick P @perfilin]

This is 45. 🎁 ☀️ 🏖️

[🇺🇸 🦅Detroit Dutch™ SSgt USMC (Ret.) 🇺🇸 🪂 @DetDutch]

From 250 miles above Earth, most of the United States blurs together into a continental mass of brown and green with no obvious landmarks. Then Michigan appears and the confusion stops completely. The mitten shape of the Lower Peninsula surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes is one of the most distinctive geographic features visible from the International Space Station, a natural outline so clean and so recognizable that astronauts have confirmed it repeatedly as one of the clearest views of any state from orbit.

The Great Lakes are what make it work. Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie create a water to land contrast that defines Michigan's borders with a precision that no cartographer could improve on. The mitten sits in the middle of all that blue like it was placed there deliberately, which in geological terms it essentially was, carved out by glaciers over thousands of years into a shape that somehow ended up being both geographically functional and immediately identifiable from the edge of the atmosphere.

Michigan residents have been using their right hand as a map their entire lives and that same gesture works from space, which is not something any other state can say. Astronauts have photographed Michigan more than almost any other state passing beneath them because the view rewards it every single time. For a state already sitting on the greatest freshwater system on the planet, being unmistakable from 250 miles up is simply Michigan being exactly what it has always been. Impossible to miss. Even from space.

[Doug Kammerer @dougkammerer]

WOW!! What an amazing shot from our Reston camera. The buildings looks incredible and the storm behind is just gorgeous! WOW AGAIN

[Nick P @perfilin]

🔥

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not exactly. SpaceX requires that there be no annoying “portal” to use Starlink.

Starlink WiFi must just work effortlessly every time, as though you were at home.

Delta wanted to make it painful, difficult and expensive for their customers. Hard to see how that is a winning strategy.