Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.Autumn has officially arrived — the Redskins have lost to a perennial doormat, we’re talking about fiscal year-end concerns, and it’s no longer necessary to run the air conditioning all day, every day. Although it’s not as if a lack of air conditioning will be anything different for Metrorail cars, many of which didn’t have effective cooling over the course of this historically hot summer.
The blogger behind the Twitter handle FixWMATA has been collecting complaints about so-dubbed “hot cars” all summer via Twitter, and released the complete list of offending vehicles this afternoon. It’s an interesting to see which line boasts the most sauna-esque cars (that would be the Orange), which series of cars had the least complaints (surprisingly the 2000 Series, which no one complained about once) and which single car had the most complaints levied against it (WMATA: please go fix car number 6149, which was reported for its excessive heat four separate times between July and September).
You can find the complete results of FixWMATA’s summer-long study on hot cars here.