More than 60 Metro track circuits show problems

Published July 29, 2009 4:00am ET



Metro has fixed at least 47 track circuits with problems since last month’s deadly train crash, and officials were working on 15 more Wednesday.

The update, listed on a new Metro Web page, is the first comprehensive look at how systemic the problems may be in the transit system since the June 22 crash exposed problems in the automatic train safety network that keeps trains from getting too close to each other.

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