Metro needs to come up with $14 million to replace two aging power units, one of which failed Wednesday, causing a massive shutdown of vital customer-related communications, including the subway's public address system and... [read full story]
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Metro's massive communications meltdown this week has revealed that two critical but aging power units need to be replaced at a cost of $14 million. One of the power units failed Wednesday, shutting down the...
Metro's massive communications meltdown this week has revealed that two critical but aging power units need to be replaced at a cost of $14 million. One of the power units failed Wednesday, shutting down the public address...
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Metro's real-time information system for buses is down. WASHINGTON - Metro's communication glitch that prevented riders from paying with credit and debit cards Wednesday morning is getting back on track. The transit agency says...
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Metro says some communication services in its system are now back up. Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says an outage to an internal power distribution unit took the Metro data center computer out of commission at 2:45 a.m....
Photo by Kevin H. As we noted in the Roundup this morning , WMATA is experiencing a major disruption of its electronically based services today after an overnight power outage. We just received a press release from Metro,...
