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Watch the Incredible Chaos on Metro This Morning [VIDEO]
It's the first workday of the first Metro Safetrack "Surge," and things are not off to a great start.
If you didn't have to take the Metro to work today, be very, very thankful. The early reports are coming in from social media on how the first workday of the Metro Safetrack "Surge" went this morning, and it's not looking good.
Workers began the first of 15 "surges" on the Orange and Silver lines on June 4, and work will continue until June 16 as part of a year-long Metro Safetrack plan to fix chronic problems across the system.
The results have been long delays and extremely crowded platforms, with the added bonus of confusion over which trains to board. Check out some of the chaos below:
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Confusion on the platform @ABC7News #wmata #safetrack pic.twitter.com/FNlGJz8k4h
— Bri Carter (@ABC7Bri) June 6, 2016
At Ballston, inbound passengers missing inbound trains b/c they're showing up on opposite side of platform #wmata pic.twitter.com/tOjCh2rJ84
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@wmata just got off loaded after 4 stops. Failure #wmata pic.twitter.com/5xCNFfMmmE
— Raymond P. Towle (@ChamberLeader) June 6, 2016
Crowd update: #wmata pic.twitter.com/LuAhj1UAZt
Stuck at VA Square station for over 30 minutes. Just informed that train is now out of service. Nightmare. #Wmata pic.twitter.com/DpxUMhvPpj
— Kushaan Shah (@kushaanshah) June 6, 2016
Ispoke too soon. Sat on train for 40 mins @ #vienna. Just left, jam packed bc of add'l delay. #wmata #SafeTrack pic.twitter.com/m1fhzyLMSH
.@FixWMATA it begins. #WMATA #Ballston #DC pic.twitter.com/SBkf6GQ8P5
— Chris (@iHapa) June 6, 2016
Appropriate. #SafeTrack #wmata pic.twitter.com/MujoQyREwN
— Angela (@angela757) June 6, 2016
Welcome to Ballston. #wmata #dcmetro pic.twitter.com/jWjEicbXd9
— ☠ ıɐp ˙ɹɯ ☠ (@mr_dai) June 6, 2016
@unsuckdcmetro #wmata Wow no train at all and a train holding toward br.... https://t.co/iKHn2SxWou pic.twitter.com/2UKXFe20cc
— Reese (@tech_chick85) June 6, 2016
Live update from EB Va Sq Metro #wmata @unsuckdcmetro pic.twitter.com/l7AVmOCkoE
#SafeTrack pamphlets littering West Falls Church bench #wmata @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/9wunXWaTw4
— Adam Tuss (@AdamTuss) June 6, 2016
Two stops into the trip - West Falls Church #wmata @nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/6NVV7SV0yk
— Adam Tuss (@AdamTuss) June 6, 2016
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