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May 10, 2017

Video: Train Doors Opened On Both Sides At Elevated Metro Station This Morning

Officials took the Red Line train to a rail yard for inspection and the train operator has been “removed from service.”

Apr 17, 2008

Metro Opens Doors … Manually

Metro sent around an announcement yesterday that in the past 100 days, train doors have opened on the side without a platform four times. While they say these mistakes mark only four instances in about the last 22 million times that train doors have opened, they’re taking the problem seriously enough that for the foreseeable future, Metrorail operators have been instructed to open train doors manually. Train doors are supposed to open automatically, although operators…

 
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