D.C. Metro Re-opens
Isn’t it ironic that before you go on a vacation or a work trip somewhere, you hear horror stories or accidents that have occurred in your destination?
Granted it may not always happen - but just occasionally, it does. Things are no different for my upcoming trip to the Nation’s capital.
Yesterday, the Washington, D.C. metro’s “Orange Line” de-railed, leaving approximately 400 passengers feeling quite helpless.
The derailment caused major backups and delays of up to an hour on Metro’s second-busiest line just before the Monday afternoon rush, and problems persisted into the evening. There were no reports of injuries, but a pregnant passenger was sent to a hospital for observation, Metro officials said. Metro used a rescue train to evacuate 412 passengers from the derailed train, including a man in a wheelchair, officials said.
Now this just gives me a warm-and-fuzzy all over. Granted, my trip is going to be a “flying” one (pardon the pun) - leaving here Monday morning, arriving there Monday afternoon, and then leaving there immediately after my meeting on Tuesday morning. But still, I’ll be using the grandiose metro of D.C. from the airport to the hotel (my hotel is actually one block off the green line). I just hope nothing happens to the yellow or green lines!
Source: Washington Post
