Fort Totten Metro Crash Explanation by General Manager John Catoe

Koja Nnamdi took a largely non-confrontational approach in his interview with Metro general manager, John Catoe today on WAMU. He did ask some tough questions about the reports of widespead technical problems, which Catoe rejected. Catoe attempted to accuse the media of scaring the public with their reports.

His efforts to analogize metro's technical problems to a heart patient getting an EKG of many hours duration with only one small blip or irregularity seemed particularly inappropriate given the death and injuries visited upon metro patrons.. His one small blip caused nine deaths.

It does seem clear that the NTSB is finding a number of deficiencies in the metro safety system and that metro is attempting to correct them as soon as possible. Hopefully, metro's historic funding problems will not hinder this.