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Update: Metro says normal service has returned to the Red Line.

Red Line: No longer single tracking. Expect residual delays in both directions due to earlier track problem outside Dupont Circle.

— Metrorail Info (@Metrorailinfo) September 30, 2014

Original post:

If you’re reading this and currently en route to board a Red Line train: don’t. Find some other way to get where you need to go. WMATA says that Red Line trains are single-tracking between the Van Ness-UDC and Dupont Circle stations due to a cracked rail near the Dupont station.

Predictably, it’s led to a lot of this:

@unsuckdcmetro they are now telling red line people not to bother entering the metro rail system pic.twitter.com/57tzncHGXF

— Angie Howard (@edvangeline) September 30, 2014

The situation on the red line in Union Station until @wmata sent an empty train ? @unsuckdcmetro pic.twitter.com/F2kYhXLMUl

— Molls (@Molade1214) September 30, 2014

@unsuckdcmetro no one can get on any trains – next train no passengers 11 minutes pic.twitter.com/cwl8IbzklO

— Angie Howard (@edvangeline) September 30, 2014

Oh sweet! The FIFTH train just drove by without stopping. Good idea cuz the platform’s empty @wmata pic.twitter.com/tE2WFvtEDm

— Andra Searles (@andrasearles) September 30, 2014

May the force be with you, Red Line riders.