Metro train operators were using side tracks as bathrooms because they lacked time for breaks, according to an inspector general’s report. Transit agency employees had to clean out vending equipment infested with dead rodents “without the benefit of face masks or protective gloves in public areas in order not to alarm patrons,” the report also found.

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