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The operator of the train was found to be at fault for not following appropriate emergency braking procedures, and was permanently barred from operating Metro trains or buses. WMATA subsequently limited when track inspections can take place and lowered train speeds to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) when within 600 feet (180 m) of inspectors. [22]
However, by early 2010 riders began to lose faith in WMATA's "promise" to implement 100% eight-car trains. [10] In December 2010 those fears were confirmed and Metro delayed the plans indefinitely. [11]
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact; Long title: An Act to grant the consent of Congress for the States of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact to establish an organization empowered to provide transit facilities in the National Capital Region and for other purposes and to enact said amendment ...
WMATA ordered the inspection of all track circuits on its 106 miles (171 km) of track after the NTSB test. [37] On July 23, the NTSB announced that the track circuit at the crash site had been malfunctioning since 2007, 18 months prior to the collision, and WMATA has since found six other circuits within the system that have been behaving ...
On July 13, 2009, WMATA adopted a "zero tolerance" policy for train or bus operators found to be texting or using other hand-held devices while on the job. This new and stricter policy came after investigations of several mass-transit accidents in the U.S. found that operators were texting at the time of the accident.
In Japan, the lost-and-found property system dates to a code written in the year 718. [1] The first modern lost and found office was organized in Paris in 1805. Napoleon ordered his prefect of police to establish it as a central place "to collect all objects found in the streets of Paris", according to Jean-Michel Ingrandt, who was appointed the office's director in 2001. [2]
The FTA ordered WMATA to fix the barriers before the end of 2018, but WMATA could not meet that deadline. [99] However, the barriers began appearing on 7000-series railcars in October 2018. In late June 2019, WMATA announced that all 7000-series railcars were fitted with the new safety chains and phased out the "This is a 7000-series train ...
MetroHero is a semi-defunct real-time transit tracking and performance analysis application for the Washington Metro rapid transit system. Originally available on iOS, Android, and the web, it allows users to view live maps of all trains on a specific line, summary statistics relating to real-time system performance, and user feedback on current Metro conditions.