Metro audit shows agency breaking its own rules

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A new review of Metro’s rail safety and security procedures finds the transit agency breaking its own policies in more than 30 key safety categories, and uncovered dozens more “areas of concern.”

The audit by Metro’s federally mandated oversight agency also found major deficiencies in Metro’s procedures for keeping track workers safe, saying that seven employees have died since 2005 because of “preventable” accidents.

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