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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Delays on the Red Line

Posted By dc_paulo On January 30, 2007 @ 10:51 am In Downtown, Metro | Comments Disabled

It hasn’t been a good week for Farragut North [1] on the Red Line. Just a day Four days after a debris fire [2] on the Glenmont-bound tracks caused delays and single-tracking Monday Friday morning, we now have reports of smoke this morning [3] at the same station, causing yet more single-tracking on the Shady Grove tracks between Judiciary Square and Dupont Circle, which is practically all of the Downtown segment of the Red Line.

(Don’t worry, Metro’s going to hire a contractor [4]! He’ll save us!)

Watch WMATA’s advisories page for the situation. [5] Anyone reading get stuck down there? Post a comment when you get back up into the daylight.

Update: I have just emerged from Dupont Circle, and the Red Line appears to be running normally again. Yay!

Update: I must have been stuck in some sort of temporal anomaly [6], because I thought the first fire was yesterday, when it was actually last Friday. Sorry, DC, and sorry, space-time continuum. I will try harder not to make your heads ache with my poor grasp of fourth dimension awareness.

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URLs in this post:

[1] Farragut North: http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/Stations/station.cfm?station=4

[2] debris fire: http://www.examiner.com/a-532111~Small_fire_stalls_service_at_Farragut_North_station.html

[3] smoke this morning: http://www.nbc4.com/news/10878763/detail.html

[4] contractor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901371.html

[5] Watch WMATA’s advisories page for the situation.: http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/alertdisplay.cfm?nocache.cfm

[6] temporal anomaly: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68542.html

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