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WMATA has sent around word of delays of up to a half hour on the Red Line throughout the evening due to a cracked rail that was discovered on the outbound track approaching the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan station. Trains are sharing one track between Woodley Park and Van Ness-UDC, with delays in both directions. The cracked rail was discovered just after 4 p.m. Delays are expected to last through 7 p.m. Metro is recommending looking for an L2 Metrobus. DCist is recommending going to straight to happy hour and not boarding a Red line train until well after 7, and well after several cocktails.
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Yep! I can't WAIT for Inauguration Day.
amen, wizzyliz, it's gonna be TONS of fun if anything like this happens then.
My guess is that a broken train or two and the mass of people in the system will cause their gravity to collapse and form a black hole. I can't wait for the fun.
My friend is trapped on a train between stations, and the conductor informed everyone that they could be stuck there 30 - 60 minutes. Yikes.
Cracked rails? Bring on the Federal infrastructure money!
My friend is trapped on a train between stations, and the conductor informed everyone that they could be stuck there 30 - 60 minutes. Yikes.
Fuck. Getting from Bethesda to Chinatown is going to be a nightmare.
IT WAS! And it really ruined my night. Thank you, Metro!
Don't you hate it when Metro cracks one of its rails just to ruin your night?
This is all Bethesdaist's fault.
What'd I do? I was stuck in this crap too, and had to start my drinking early!
I keep up my infastructure -- no cracked rails on me, thank you very much.
I had to wait about 10 minutes at Union Station and I got to Fort Totten with no delays.
OT, but does anyone know what the stink around the Ellington Bridge in Woodley/Adams-Morgan is? Smells like a fish truck overturned and has been rotting for a week.
if you can figure that out, maybe you can figure out what the stink in my fridge is too. my whole apartment smells bad now...
And while I'm at it, I am also not responsible for the Ellington Bridge stench, and I do not smell like an overturned fish truck (most days.)
I got to Farragut North at 5:55 and waited 50 minutes for an L2. Traffic was barely inching by. It took us 40 minutes to get to Dupont Circle, and counting the waiting, it took me over 2 hours to get to Van Ness. I mean, fuck! Next time they close so many streets downtown, I say we riot and demand congestion pricing.
I was on the train that discovered the cracked rail. We discovered it by driving over it. At first the train had stopped in the tunnel, but it was inching forward and stopping repeatedly. When we got to the part of the track that had the cracked rail, it felt like the train car dropped by about a foot and a half. One guy in the car ahead of me was on the emergency intercom with the operator, opening the end door to check that the train was still on the tracks. After all the train cars had cleared the "bump" (as the operator put it) we kept going as if nothing was wrong. It was pretty crazy; I thought for a moment that we were going to derail...