The Washington Post has started a series of 4 article covering our sometimes beloved Metro rail system, covering all the foibles of the system, from mismanagement to car problems to my favorite: Escalator “repair”:
And a $93 million project to renovate 178 escalators has managed to make many of them worse. More than a third have been breaking down more often than they did before, a Washington Post analysis of Metro statistics shows.
Definitely required reading for anyone who takes the Metro all the time or just once in a while.
Update: Metro has responded to their initial story, and the Washington Post has posted their second article on the Metro, this time about Safety Warnings Gone Ignored.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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