Metro to finish Foggy Bottom escalator replacement

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Metro riders passing through the Foggy Bottom station can put away their climbing shoes starting Wednesday – at least for a while.

The transit agency is planning a ribbon cutting for 11 a.m. Wednesday to mark the completion of the third escalator replacement at the Orange/Blue Line station. It’s a long-awaited milestone as commuters have been grappling with temperamental escalators at the one-entrance station for years, then had to weather construction there since January as the agency replaced them. They’ve often had to hike up and down stopped escalators.