Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld at the Judiciary Square station. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)Last August, Metro General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld’s relentlessly chipper exterior began to crack. [Wiedefeld: ‘Turning Metro around requires us to confront some hard truths.’]Compared with a year ago, service is measurably worse. Metro track walkers enter the tunnel between the Waterfront and L’Enfant Plaza stations the day after a 2015 incident where a Yellow Line train filled with smoke. That incident resulted in the death of one rider and injured scores of others (Amanda Voisard/For The Washington Post)Wiedefeld looked to track workers surrounding him.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 00:21 UTC