How many intense and detailed emergency inspections has Metro conducted this year? I lost count, and that is including the big all-day closure in the spring. And despite numerous intense, detailed, safety focused inspections, this stupid shit continues to happen. At some point, leadership and politicians needs to realize that the problem is the people. When you send the same lazy morons that created the problems out to inspect the problems they crated, don't act surprised that nothing changes. The lazy, incompetent, show-up-for-a-check employees that Queen Jackie defends day in and day out are responsible for this. And the managers that allowed it for decades are equally complicate. They could fire thousands of people in all levels of employment and literally nobody would notice them missing. They didn't do crap on the job, and they can continue not doing crap sitting on the street for all I care. At least we'd know nothing's being done, rather than being misled into thinking it's being done. People died because of their laziness.
The only thing that continues to surprise me is that the media and regulators have managed to not notice this for decades until now. It's been obvious to anyone that wanted to see it.