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Metro’s longest escalators at Wheaton down more than others

By Kytja Weir
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Metro’s longest escalators at Wheaton down more than others

Metro riders in Bethesda think they have it bad, hiking up 212 feet of stalled escalators at the station there.

But agency statistics show the three escalators at the Wheaton station, the longest in the entire system at 230 feet, were out of service far more often than the six at Bethesda — or the other three stations with the system’s longest escalators.

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