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Metro Board Blasts Transit Agency for Derailment Track Issue

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Elena Sorokina

Metro’s Board of Directors says it is “outraged and dismayed” following the interim GM’s admission that the transit agency knew about a track issue but didn’t act on it, before a train derailed at the Smithsonian Station.

View the original at NBC4 Washington >>

Posted in CSG in the News, NewsTagged WMATA

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