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- Rockville Ride-On Bus Crash Injures Pedestrian Badly
- Metro Proposes Safety-Critical Worker Hours Limits.
- One Person Killed in Bus Crash at James Madison University
- Tri-State Oversight Committee: Metro Employees Overworked/Fatigued
- Tractor Trailer CSX Train Collide in Harford County
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- Limits on Maryland WMATA injuries are not limited to maximum recovery of $200k. Could this spell something bigger for catastrophically injured Marylanders?
- Metro keeps on having deadly incidents.Can this be fixed?
- Too many deaths for Metro employees and users, can this be fixed?
- Report on Metro safety culture reveals widespread problems and dangerous negligence.
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Metro Seeks Escalator Consult
As if Metro did not have enough problems, the chronic difficulties with their escalators apparently requires outside help. For those who follow Metro's difficulties, they have obviously had major safety problems with their trains including the catastrophic Fort Totten crash of last year. http://www.maryland-law.com/library/why-does-metro-keep-having-deadly-accidents.cfmBut the escalator problems have caused some significant injuries and have caused system-wide inconvenience. Approximately 10% of Metro escalators were out of service this week and by Metro's own numbers the problem has steadily worsened with overall reliability down from 2007 to 2008 to the present.
Some of the problems are attributable to the absence of necessary parts because the escalators built many years ago were manufactured by now defunct companies.
While overall Maryland and the District of Columbia have very safe transportation systems the sheer number of people using them and the nature of the buses and trains utilized results in catastrophic injuries on a fairly routine basis.
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- I was a victim of the June 22nd Fort Totten Metro crash and I've heard lawsuits have already been filed, am I too late?
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