The news that Metro knew, but didn’t do anything, about the defect that caused a derailment last week has ticked off an already grumpy set of customers. Searching the #wmata tag on Twitter yields some dark humor about the region’s troubled transportation system.
Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously the news editor and lead media reporter for the Poynter Institute, arts editor for the now completely vanished TBD.com, and managing editor of Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.
Metro Has Lost the Internet, Again
The news that Metro knew, but didn’t do anything, about the defect that caused a derailment last week has ticked off an already grumpy set of customers. Searching the #wmata tag on Twitter yields some dark humor about the region’s troubled transportation system.
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Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously the news editor and lead media reporter for the Poynter Institute, arts editor for the now completely vanished TBD.com, and managing editor of Washington City Paper. He lives in Del Ray.
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