Metro is facing a labor shortage for a position that is critical to keeping its stations open and its trains running on time: mechanics for its aging rail system.
“We have a large number of vacancies with mechanics,” Metro General Manager John Catoe told board members this month when questioned about the agency’s sliding statistics for on-time rail performance.
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