Day One trying optimal timing = Fail

I caught the 7:00am orange train out of Dadeland South (DLS).  We arrived at MIA at 7:42, I watched the 7:40 train pull out of the station as I hurried down the large set of stairs.  Now I hear the old Don Adam's phrase from GetSmart "Missed it by that much". 

I suspect that the train took 42 minutes because of 'single tracking' that slows down the trains for track maintenance. Read about single tracking/maintenance on the MetroRail site here.  Tomorrow I will catch the 6:50am train. 

After reading a little more, the 'single tracking' is supposed to happen after 8:30pm so it should not have slowed us down.  MetroRail is supposed to take 33 minutes but took 42 minutes and there are no alerts about delays on their Twitter account.

There are a few benches on the platform, that is where I am writing this blog post.  It is 7:52 and the next train is pulling into the station now.  This will be the train that leaves at 8:20.  Now I am sitting on the train with a table and my coffee.

Today, I will use Zipcar for the first time to run out to Scooby's farm to pickup my weekly CSA.