WTOP just reported the number of people killed in today's accident has risen to six.
You’re welcome - that incident really bothered me; I felt that the Deputy GM (who I misidentified as the GM in my earlier post) had blood on his hands from that one. My heart went out to that poor operator.
I don’t think this will be a money issue, although Metro’s web site admittedly claims that the crashing train “derailed”. We’ll see. I have always felt that Metro never cultivated an environment that encouraged safety - it’s original pitch was that “everything is fail safe computers” and reduced the operating personnel to feeling as if they were just cogs in a machine. Nobody “owns” safety.