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Metro, other rail lines face Tuesday-morning delays

WASHINGTON — Tuesday morning was a rough one for people traveling by the rails, with delays and cancellations on Metro, Virginia Railway Express and MARC. A cracked rail on Metro’s Red Line near the Friendship Heights station led to single-tracking between the Van Ness and Friendship Heights stations until about 10:30 a.m. Outbound trains are bypassing Tenleytown in order to ease the delays, but riders are tweeting about delays of 30 minutes or more at some stations. On VRE, a car got stuck on the tracks in Manassas, leading to serious delays.

And MARC canceled Trains 844 and 847 on the Camden Line due to mechanical problems.

Metro bridge inspections delayed by uncertified equipment

WASHINGTON — Metro fell significantly behind on critical bridge inspections over the past year because key tools were allowed to slip out of certification, a new report says. According to an internal Metro Quality Assurance, Internal Compliance & Oversight office report that was posted quietly last month, eight bridge inspections were critically behind schedule because all three of Metro’s lifts were out of service as of the end of March due to lapsed certifications.
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