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Jan 26 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
The Metro Board today recognized 3 operators for heroic actions: * Victoria Stanley, who arrived at Metro Center station as a shooting broke out last month. Instead of opening the doors, she sped off to the next stop to protect her passengers. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/… 1/
* Quavena Hall who transported a two young girls to safety who had been shot getting off her Metrobus. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/… 2/
*Raynell Redd who saw a toddler who had slipped out of his home unnoticed into the freezing weather & brought the child onboard while she called for assistance. #wmata

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Jan 25
In the spat between Metro @wmata & its regulator @MetrorailSafety last week, Metro said it hadn’t reduced training for train operators. Transit officials said they had just tweaked what was required because of a train shortage. 1/
Metro acknowledged publicly their one flaw was not documenting this training change in their policies or manuals. But Metro still hasn’t — & isn’t planning to, according to a letter from @MetrorailSafety. Metro has indicated they are making no changes at all to training. 2/
The agency has gone back to training operators like they used to. If there had been a thought-out change to training made, it raises the question why Metro would stick to the current requirements in their policies instead of making & formalizing changes they said were needed? 3/
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Dec 10, 2022
It’s been a staggering week of news for Metro @wmata, the nation’s 3rd largest transit system. Billion dollar proposals to boost train & bus service. Votes to waive fares altogether. Two station shootings. Busiest week I’ve had at @washingtonpost with 8 bylines.

Let’s recount:
Metro proposes to bring back 3 minute waits on trains after an agonizing year of double-digit waits, while proposing to cut fares for low-income riders & raise them modestly for everyone else. washingtonpost.com/transportation…
Here’s 5 takeaways from Metro’s proposed $2.3B spending plan next year. washingtonpost.com/transportation…
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