Metrorail's Thursday of Doom

[Scrabbleship]

First, A piece of rail broke near Tenleytown shortly after opening then while single tracking a train in the single track zone had a door problem. This zonked the Red Line until midday.


Then, around 11:00 PM WMATA suffered a communications meltdown that froze the entire system for nearly an hour. WMATA's website was down as well. Granted it was late at night but it took hours for anyone to contact the press.


I know that DC is a very cynical city and the unique structure of WMATA (plus the contempt Richmond has for NoVA/Annapolis has for MoCo and PG) plays some role in this but the structure issue goes only so far.