Oh boy, this isn’t good. Signal problems and mechanical problems on metrorail caused massive delays during the Marine Corps Marathon with “several passengers staggering from the heat swooned on the station platforms,” the Post reports. The problems were blamed on a switch at the National Airport station, which clogged the Blue and Yellow lines.
Then a Blue Line train car broke down in the Potomac River tunnel between the Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom stations, causing 40 minute delays traveling between Virginia and the District via the Orange and Blue lines. It was during this incident, the Post reports, when a passenger at the Rosslyn station had to be removed by paramedics on a stretcher because of heat exhaustion.
