Safety First?

Via Brian on the Unsuck DC Metro Facebook:

Here's a new one.

On July 20 at 8:20 a.m., I was on the Yellow Line at Pentagon City.

The doors on the last two cars failed to open, so people started walking forward through the emergency doors and exiting through the third car from the end.

Did the operator know? Yes he did, since he asked "are the doors still not open?"

But that didn't stop him from closing the doors (in the cars where they would open) and driving the train out of the station WHILE people were still walking between cars to exit the train.

Other items:
MTA vs. WMATA (Bloomberg)
Metro fails late night rush, too (WaPo)