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ROCC employees ignore a rule designed to keep workers safe, the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission says


Employees in Metro’s Rail Operations Control Center (ROCC) have been purposely disregarding a rule meant to keep track workers safe, according to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission. Rail controllers short-circuited the rule governing how to safely turn track power back on, which the WMSC says could pose a risk to Metro workers and riders.
The safety commission detailed the violations at its last public meeting held on March 2. The rule, modified last fall due to earlier violations found by the WMSC, governs how ROCC staff are supposed to restore power to the tracks when it’s been turned off for track work, emergencies, or in other situations. ....

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Your Metrorail trips in 2021 might get quicker – five seconds at a time


A Metro project quietly shelved last year is about to make an attempted comeback in 2021. The agency has a new plan to make its train doors open automatically at stations again, beginning on the Red Line in January, and coming to the rest of the system later in the year.
If this sounds like a repeat story, it’s not just you. Metro published two press releases in 2019 announcing a return to Automatic Door Operation (ADO), wherein doors of its Metrorail trains would automatically open when the train arrives into a station, rather than requiring the operator to press a button (or several) to get the doors to open. ....

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