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June 23, 2009

WMATA history sanitized

I finally found a once-accessible on-line history of Washington's Metro that is now buried deep on the WMATA web site.

It started off in a reasonably honest way, but in recent years it has played all kinds of games with history. For example, its timeline for 2005 conveniently overlooks the on-the-job death of an employee in October of that year but is careful to note that buus operator Robertt Miles had won his 17th Metrobus Roadeo.

In 2006,  the "history" notes the deaths of two employees struck by a train in November. but overlooks the death of another employee in a similar incident that May.

It does note the deaths of two  Metro transit officers over the years, If you were to count their deaths along with the crash fatalities, the toll on the Mtero system would stand at 19.

Funny, the timeline ignores any mention of NTSB reports on its past actions.

The timeline ends after April 17, 2008 -- marking the end of history, at least for WMATA.

 

 

 

Posted by Michael Dresser at 10:07 AM | | Comments (0)
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Michael Dresser has been an editor, reporter and columnist with The Sun longer than Baltimore's had a subway. He's covered retailing, telecommunications, state politics and wine. Since 2004, he's been The Sun's transportation writer. He lives in Ellicott City with his wife and travel companion, Cindy.

His Getting There column appears on Mondays. Mike's blog will be a forum for all who are interested in highways, transit and other transportation issues affecting Baltimore, Maryland and the region.
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