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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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 #1573912  by davinp
 
Step back, doors closing. The automated system that opens doors when trains arrive at stations, which Metro rolled out on the Red Line in January, has once again been turned back off. Train operators will now resort back to manually pushing the buttons needed to open doors when trains berth to let riders on and off.

An audit issued earlier this year by the Washington Metropolitan Safety Commission (WMSC), which oversees Metrorail safety, spotted flaws in the way that ADO came to be re-certified and re-enabled this year, which potentially played a role in this saga’s latest development.

The WMSC confirmed that Metro disabled ADO, but neither agency returned several follow-up questions about the topic before this article was published.

https://ggwash.org/view/81691/metro-tak ... tion-again
 #1574184  by danib62
 
Honestly I'm not sure the autodoors were saving much time, if any but it annoys me that we're taking a step back from ATO again...