Safety Board Says D.C. Metro Should Have Replaced Train
Nine people died in the worst crash in the Metro's 33-year history
Reader Comments
Train Drivers and Bus Drivers
Washington Metro Subway system require train driver to work as metro bus driver for one year or more then apply for train driver. Everyone knows that in Washington DC suburbs, Blacks control all the Metro drivers positions jobs. More than 80% of the drivers are Black. Whenever a White or Asian driver was hired to drive bus or train, they will always get push out by unethnical or criminal tactics. The dispatchers if they are Black will assign defective, old or obsolete buses or trains to White drivers. When those buses broke down their rescue, repair, road services and other help will always be delayed. When passengers harassed White driver help will often come late. Many Black riders will gang up to harass White making them unable to work. In all, the Washington Metro transportation systems is a criminal and racketeering organization probably endorsed by Barack Obama. They must be investigated by law enforcement agencies. Bus riding is an alternative to driving which will conserve resource, save energy and protect environment. Criminal activities such as this will discourage ridership. We don't know whether the driver or passengers are Blacks but this is cetainly poetic justice from God.
OLD TRAINS AND PLANES
There are too many old trains and planes transporting people like cargo. About 12years ago there was a cheap air line company called jet blue that had been reported by one of its passenger to be using duck tape to repair a small crack on one of the plane's wings. So much for a bargain flight.
Use Stimulus Money for Car Replacement
This sounds like a good use for some of the Stimulus money: replace defective subway cars. Only this time, how about buying the cars from an American company, rather than sending the dollars overseas to a foreign company. The existing DC subway cars where manufactured in Spain, France and Italy.
some facts, please
{"...the older subway train... should have been replaced years ago because of safety concerns."}
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What were these "safety concerns" ??
(...'Journalism 101')
sad but true
unless you hit a Corp. in the pocketbook with fines and prison time for knowing negligence, nothing further will be done .. still / no lessons learned
I never trusted the metro and i sure never will, not after this!
Customers pay for reliability and safety meaning all code, etc. have been followed. For those of us from Japan, where train problems do exist, but not as many, this news has been nonstop from the HOUR it began to show on USA news. There is a lot of shock being conveyed at how "lax" the USA are about what few train systems they have.
Thank you for this informative article. Hope you keep the spammers out of comments on such a serious issue.
The Lord watch over all the loved ones of the deceased. Pity people do not take care of another & allowed this train to keep operating!
Prison Time demanded....
Get the %^&$^ing 100 series cars out of service immdeiately....they are death traps. Head need to roll and people need to go to jail for their ignorance.
