Metro Rail Car Manager Available for Questions

Jeff Pringle, Metro's senior project manager for rail cars, is taking questions and suggestions about Metro's rail cars during an online chat from noon to 1 p.m. on Metro's Web site.

Pringle can discuss Metro's newest 6000 series rail cars, which will enter service this summer, and the redesigned rail car with a new interior -- the one with the bench seats and some poles removed -- which is now taking a test drive on the Orange Line.

The new rail cars were hot topics of discussion all week after Metro previewed them on Monday. Lena H. Sun wrote a story about the new designs in The Post.