Metro has delayed plans yet again to lengthen more trains, meaning the flood of humanity each day on Metro’s Orange Line — known unaffectionately to riders as the Orange Crush — will likely continue. The transit agency had planned to increase the share of eight-car trains across the system from 30 percent to 75 percent during rush periods a year and a half ago. The longer trains can carry about 300 more people each.
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