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.
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 with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. His book A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War was published in 2018. He lives in Del Ray.
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