Foggy Bottom blues: 3 new escalators fail

Published March 28, 2012 4:00am ET



Metro riders who rely on the Foggy Bottom station had thought their escalator woes might be over when the transit agency finished replacing three escalators in November after months of construction.

But they were reminded Wednesday morning that the hiking isn’t over: All three new escalators went down for about 50 minutes at the end of the morning commute. And the new equipment itself could be partly to blame — for being so high-tech.

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