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>> The Red Line has resumed normal service after a suspicious package closed the Dupont Circle, Woodley Park, and Cleveland Park stations for several hours.
>> Temperatures hit 102 at Reagan National Airport at 1 p.m., breaking a nearly 80-year-old record by one degree. [WaPo]
>> The Adams Morgan Safeway closed briefly Sunday evening due to a bomb scare. [City Desk]
>> Damage from the Capitol Lounge/Trover Shop fire is estimated at about $100,000 by fire officials. [WaPo]
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Regarding the Red Line stoppage, TV coverage shows Metro and the Metro police determined to prove my DCist post of 9:37 AM yesterday:
The worst training deficiency of Metro Police is one they face most often: crowd control.
When a train line is stopped, WMATA announces that a "bus bridge" can ferry passengers around the problem, and mobs congregate at bus stops above stations on either side of the blockage. Metro Police do not feel responsible for controlling these crowds, or just don't know how, and tempers flare.
While it is certainly fraudulent for WMATA to claim it can mobilize the number of drivers needed to shuttle patrons of 800-passenger trains on 40-passenger buses in a reasonable period of time, it is still the duty of Metro Police to keep order at the mobbed bus stops. WMATA must train officers to do this and punish those who will not.
Maybe I just can't find it, but then that would be a testament to poor web site design.
I have the "Washington" home page set up on WashingtonPost.com (rather than the National News one) and this morning, searching on the text on the home page, the only reference to "Metro" is about Metro and DC United.
The only article I can find about yesterday's outage is this one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/08/AR2007080801628.html
...a very short article with a 5:30 PM timestamp.
I'm looking for the follow-up article and it doesn't seem to exist.
Not only did Metro fuck this up, the local media giant dropped the ball too.
What the fuck actually happened? And where are pressing questions to Metro and other city officials? Local TV news might've had some pictures, but they had shit for information.