Strike Idea to Rename Navy Yard, Graham Says
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Could baseball fans soon be exiting the Navy Yard/Geico Field Station?
Not a chance, said Metro board representative and D.C. Council member Jim Graham. Graham (D-Ward 1) said he has been contacted by Washington Nationals representatives who wanted to know if the name of the Navy Yard Station could be changed to reflect the name of the corporation that buys the larger naming rights of the stadium.
Graham said he wasn't interested in naming a station after a private company. Each jurisdiction is responsible for its local stations' names.
"There is not going to be a Quaker Oats or Ford Metro station," Graham said, adding that he did not know which companies might be interested in bidding on the naming rights.
'Pope Pass' Available for Mass Day
Metro will be offering a special "Pope Pass" for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Nationals ballpark April 17.
Currently, one-day passes are usable only after 9:30 a.m., way too late for spectators to make it to the 10 a.m. Mass at the ballpark. Metro predicts that as many as 25,000 people will take Metrorail to the event and that security will likely require them to arrive very early.
Although details have not been worked out, the passes will sell for $9 and permit unlimited ridership that day.
Details on when and where the passes will be available are forthcoming.
Contract Issued for Full-Scale Analysis
To improve customer service, the Metro board unanimously approved a $500,000 no-bid contract to Gayland Moffat Consulting, which last year advised General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. on administrative changes that he said saved about $26 million a year.
The contract requires a "complete organizational assessment" of bus, rail, MetroAccess and training, planning and scheduling.
Armed with its experience with the transit system, Gayland Moffat will delve deeper into such operations facets as the number of management layers, leadership, supervisory quantity and quality, talent and labor efficiencies, Catoe said.
"There is still important work to be done," he added.
