Metro Reveals Cause of Escalator Collapse

Metro has been plagued with escalator issues for the past year. But one of the most shocking incidents happened just last month, when a woman stepped onto an escalator at the Foggy Bottom station and fell through the steps.

Metro now says they know what caused those steps to collapse beneath the woman’s feet. Transit officials say an object was lodged in the station’s central escalator causing the steps to break apart.

The incident is detailed in a 15-page report that will be presented at a Metro Board meeting Thursday.

The woman was able to pull herself out of escalator and the report says that the escalator shutdown when the steps collapsed. Metro says they will review other similar models in the system to keep the breakdown from happening again.

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