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Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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 #1455038  by davinp
 
Apparently, there were many things that Metro failed to fix during SafeTrack

Metro’s SafeTrack program fell short of bringing a critical stretch of the Orange, Blue and Silver lines into a state of good repair, despite an unprecedented 16-day shutdown in the summer of 2016 that closed a portion of the system to tens of thousands of daily commuters, the agency acknowledged in a new internal review of the year-long maintenance effort.

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