>>1048045>Washington DCIt's turned into complete dogshit in the past few years. Head-end collisions and smoke in the tunnels from stalled trains has literally killed more than a handful of people in the last 10 years. Operators with little discipline run red signals with no safety fallback whatsoever. A constant cycle of extensive trackwork means your subway commute could be affected at any time, leaving little alternative than shuttle buses. Metro now runs the lowest amount of operating hours for any American subway, and has shit headways to go along with it.
You can hear all about it in this podcast:
http://wamu.org/show/metropocalypse/ 