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Like a lot of public-transportation-taking Washingtonians, Rusty McAndrew was running late this morning. He'd gotten on Metro at his neighborhood station in Columbia Heights, then transferred at Gallery Place for the Red Line. He called the salon where he works, VSL Hair Design in Dupont Circle, to let them know he was on his way. [...]

A man who called himself King John was on the Red Line on his way to the Medical Center Metro stop—headed to Briana's Hair Spa in Frederick, where he's a master barber. He was in the third car. It just stopped. "It was a slight bang," he said. "It wasn't major."
There was uncertainty, the flickering [...]

Metro has reported the derailment of a six-car Red Line train at the Farragut North station.
Metro's statement in full:
A six-car Red Line train headed in the direction of Shady Grove Metrorail station has reportedly derailed near the Farragut North Metrorail station. There are no reported injuries.
Metro officials and local first responders are at the scene [...]

WMATA reports that two of its workers were killed this morning after being struck by a piece of track equipment near the Rockville Metro station. The Red Line has been closed between Rockville and Shady Grove. WMATA writes:
"The Metro employees, both males, were struck by a prime mover, a diesel-powered piece of equipment that is [...]

The general manager of the D.C. Metro, John Catoe, says riders on the Red Line should expect delays for at least a year because of the ongoing investigation into last month's deadly crash and repairs connected to it, the Washington Times reports.
"If this is an issue dealing with the safety of the system, I'm not [...]

Another day, another Red Line delay.  This time, it's due to a train striking a man as it pulled into Van Ness/UDC  station around 12:30 this afternoon.  According to Metro's press release,
"A six-car Red Line train headed toward Shady Grove was pulling into the station around 12:30 p.m. when witnesses report the man intentionally placed [...]

Whoa—big story just posted by Washington Post reporters Lena Sun and Lyndsey Layton:
The train control system designed to prevent Metro crashes is malfunctioning across the railroad, suggesting that a technological failure at the heart of last month's fatal crash may be widespread, according to officials and documents.
At least one-half dozen track circuits on four of [...]

So on Wednesday morning, the lovely people at WMATA issued a press release stating that the Takoma station will continue to close at 10 p.m. every night until July 19th.  They amended the statement with another one this morning, stating that tonight, the station will stay open until 3 a.m., the normal closing time on [...]

D.C. Wire's Marion Barry coverage leads the Post's site this a.m., wherein Councilmember David Catania "steps to the plate" (Barry loves that phrase) on the issue of granting and then yanking public contracts from his former ladyfriend. "These are public funds," he says. "There needs to be an accounting." Barry's spokesperson promises the good councilmember will actually [...]

According to WMATA, emergency personnel are responding to the Forest Glen Metro station on the Red Line. The reason: A pedestrian has reportedly been struck by "an eight-car train headed in the direction of Shady Grove...The incident took place at 4:10 p.m."
WMATA goes on to state: "Trains are single-tracking, or taking turns sharing one track [...]

You can listen to the radio transmissions from the metro crash here. [You can also go directly to the radio calls here].The first 911 dispatcher call out is for a pretty significant all hands on deck for a derailment. There doesn't appear to be any confusion about the severity of the crash. And then there's [...]

The family of Ana Fernandez, a victim of the metro crash, tell WTOP they've gotten a bunch of hate calls from anti-immigrant crazies. The station reports:
"They have been getting hate-filled telephone messages about whether or not Fernandez, a mother of six, was a legal immigrant.
Her family gathered outside her Hyattsville apartment Wednesday. A crying woman [...]

Throughout yesterday, more details about the Metro crash were released, including the names of the nine individuals who died in Monday afternoon's accident. City Desk also reported that the train that hit the stopped train outside Fort Totten was 2 months overdue for its brake maintenance service.  The train that initiated the crash was also [...]