Comments on: Metro Crash Injures 3 Employees

By: stickler

stickler — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:23 +0000

‘INJURES 3′ – not ‘INJURIES 3′

By: ontarioroader

ontarioroader — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:10:34 +0000

WMATA just released that this crash will cost over $9 million. Why the hell don’t the feds/NTSB have oversight of this system yet? Why does Catoe still have a job?

By: Lee Watkins

Lee Watkins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:04:38 +0000

The frequency of accidents on DC’s metro is NOT NORMAL. There’s been more accidents in the last year or two than Chicago or NYC have had in the last 100 years. I’ve lost track of how many accidents there have been.

DC needs to put some other city’s employees in charge of Metro. Seriously, just start over with all new employees shipped in. Look, does this happen on Baltmore’s subway line? No, it does not.

That being said, as abnormal as Metro is, technically it’s still way safer than driving a car anywhere.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:35:25 +0000

This type of thing DOES NOT happen in normal cities. I mean, seriously, Mexico City has a better and safer transit record than DC.

DC is a fire-belching, apocalyptic, demonically possessed clusterfuck of third-world dysfunction. I hate it here.

By: West Kansas

West Kansas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:25:25 +0000

Media-fueled hysteria.

A year ago, this incident wouldn’t have been a blip in the news cycle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:00:33 +0000

at this rate we won’t have any rail cars left by the end of the year!

By: ontarioroader

ontarioroader — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:44:08 +0000

So what’s WMATA up to so far this year – around 25 deaths and over 100 injured?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:08:15 +0000

ya think?

By: Dittle

Dittle — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:57:46 +0000

Umm, even though this happened at 4:27 in a rail yard, there have been a lot of Metro accidents lately.