Metro GM warns ‘something will happen’ to system on Jan. 20

Published January 13, 2009 5:00am ET



Metro will have two hours to do maintenance on Inauguration Day before it offers unprecedented service to accommodate record crowds on Jan. 20. Yet the problems the system has faced in the past week with normal crowds on its regular service may not bode well.

Even Metro officials acknowledge that Inauguration Day will tax the aging system.

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