Red Line incident may cause lengthy delays

WTH!!! whats going on with Metro these days

It's all fun and games until someone gets run over by a train.

Mr. Darwin at work. No surprise, really. There's been a long-standing problem on the Red Line with rowdy and unruly kids. Transit police and Metro personnel are unable or unwilling to intervene, and haven't really seemed interested in crafting policies or providing manpower to mitigate this problem. This is the result. FIRE CATOE NOW!!!

I see kids fooling around all the time, play fighting etc. Metro has no one down on the stations to stop this and it's been pointed out to them, sadly I am not surprised this would happen, just surprised it took this long.

Always figured it was a matte rof time before the kids who horse around on the platforms and thr trains hurt themselves. Kid's damn lucky he/she is alive.

What is wrong with Metro?
What's wrong with these idiot teenagers playing around on the platform?
You cant blame the trains for that!

I was at metro center when this happened, waiting for a shady grove bound train. one came but it was packed so i figured i'd wait the extra minute or two for an empty grovsner train...which didn't come.

then a few more min.. then a few more... nothing over the intercom except one thing which gave me a clue something was up

"station managers do not call central command unless it is an extreme emergency"

a few min later a glenmont train serviced the station, waited a few min and continued.

there were a few muffled announcments (about 10 minutes after this happened), but none could be understood. i checked my phone and saw there was an alert. nothing on the boards except trains with no times listed.

when i saw lights coming from gallery place towards metro center i ran up and around to the other side figuring they were single tracking. i was right. about 10 people made it before they closed the doors and continued wrong-waying until dupont circle.

people who were on the train already claimed it was an older teenager/young adult with his mother? who jumped headfirst onto the tracks in front of the train

It doesn't get much worse than the Gallery Place station. Gallery Place is the most dangerous, most crowded, smallest station in the whole metro system where accidents always seem to happen (or are bound to happen).

and yet wmata website says "on time"

hmmmmm...
seems like another episode of
"Cooning It Up"
go figure...

Might want to delete tindal0s comments Post mods...

Wow. The terrorists don't even need bombs. They can just go around bumping into trains and grind the system to a hault.

So glad I'm commuting by car these days. Took me only 35 minutes to get home, even with the rain and a stalled car on North Capitol, only five minutes longer than usual.

Everyday I ride the Metro from the Red Line, get to Gallery Place I know that there are kids down stairs waiting for the Green Line to Branch Ave. These school kids are running, cursing, and playing so close to the edge of the platform. Where are the Metro Police? One day you see one and the next day you don't.

Maybe now the metro security/police will FINALLY get these d**n children under control. I usually take the red line and there are always unruly kids in the station and on the train. It's typical of Metro's incompetence that a kid has to get hit by a train for them to take notice of the issue.

ummm........Metro ----- Redskins, not sure which one is worse.