Monday, June 9, 2008
Orange Line Train Derails in Virginia
Earlier today, a Metro train on the Orange Line derailed between the Rosslyn and Courthouse stations, causing delays for riders headed to Virginia. DCist notes that Orange Line riders “are really having a bad time of it lately” citing last week’s storm that affected Orange Line passengers.
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Joemama
Yep, heat is going to cause more derailments if the engineers continue to drive the trains at excessive speed. They will kill someone if they already haven’t taken a little life already. I’m surprised the papers kept reporting no injuries, insisting NO ONE WAS HURT! ALL IS WELL! ALL IS WELLLLLL!! When a expecting mother, YES a pregnant woman was hospitalized after the Metro Train Derailment, who was suffering from abdominal pains! Hopefully, she didn’t have a miscarriage and loose the baby. I’m sure the Metro System will be paying out a few million to that woman if she loses the baby. Personally, with the gas crunch the trains have been loaded with too many people and exceeding their max weight allowed for safe transport. If the Fire Department has laws for excessive people in a building for Fire Code, why hasn’t anyone been enforcing Max Occupancy for the Metro Trains? The Trains have been loading far too many people on them, I would speculate that overloading/weight and speed were the two main factors for this derailment. Someone should arrest the Metro Engineer for exceeding max safe weight and speed during this accident. Or at least give him a ticket!
June 10, 2008
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