Your Metrorail trips in 2021 might get quicker – five seconds at a time
A Metro project quietly shelved last year is about to make an attempted comeback in 2021. The agency has a new plan to make its train doors open automatically at stations again, beginning on the Red Line in January, and coming to the rest of the system later in the year. If this sounds like a repeat story, it’s not just you. Metro published two press releases in 2019 announcing a return to Automatic Door Operation (ADO), wherein doors of its Metrorail trains would automatically open when the train arrives into a station, rather than requiring the operator to press a button (or several) to g...
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