Beyoncé Funds Metro Service
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Railway Gazette.
This is the first paragraph.
Singer Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour funded an extra hour of operation of the Washington metro at a cost of $100 000, ensuring that fans could get home after bad weather delayed the start of her concert at the FedEx Field stadium.
Reading the whole article, it looks like everyone was a winner and it is to be hoped that it sets a precedent and under similar circumstances, other promoters take similar actions.
I remember a few years ago, Ipswich and Charlton in the League Cup overran badly one evening and we all got back to Ipswich station well after the last train had gone.
But Greater Anglia made sure that everybody got home, even sending a fleet of taxis to Sudbury.
The Anonymous Widower 
This wasn’t unique to the promotors of Beyonce’s event but is a $100000 deposit scheme run by DC Metro which all promotors pay for overruning events. If an event overruns to the maximum DC Metro keeps the money, if the overrun incurs only part of the deposit the balance is repaid by staged refunds from DC Metros farebox.
What does TfL do in London?
Comment by fammorris | August 15, 2023 |