The National Transportation Safety Board says Metro riders are still facing a system with many of the rail car safety issues and track circuit flaws that led to last year’s deadly Red Line crash.
The transit agency is continuing to use the 1000 series rail car model that crumpled to less than one-fifth of its original size in the June 2009 Fort Totten crash. The federal safety investigators recommended Metro stop using its oldest rail cars as soon as possible.
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