Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority plans to hire a rail transport service provider to help upgrade the doors of a series of rail cars after doors on those cars opened on the wrong side at stations three times. Metro is planning to spend more than a half-million dollars and spend two years repairing door controls on the Rohr 1000 Series rail cars. Alstom, which made the cars’ automatic train controls, will add hardware to stop electromagnetic interference that caused the doors to open when running in automatic mode. The trains have been operating manually since a crash this summer that killed nine people and injured dozens more. The cars were not thought to cause the crash but may have made it more deadly.Read more about the project here.
Metro to Fix EMI Issues on Rail Car Doors
