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When Will Metro Take Security Seriously?
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During the assault, I called the emergency line and reported the incident, then reported that the girls had exited at the Minnesota Avenue station. We sat on the train for two or three minutes while the driver called Metro administration. The driver then told us that a security official would meet the victim at New Carrollton, four stops away at the end of the line.
When we got to New Carrollton, there was no security official. When I berated the driver for not waiting at Minnesota Avenue for security, he said a Metro official told him that he had to proceed to the end of the line.
Is it Metro's policy to proceed, come hell or high water?
The incident this month in which a passenger on the New York subway was killed for an iPod makes my experience even more troubling.
STUART YAEL GORDON
Annapolis
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The July 23 story about the backpack left on the Blue Line said that passengers contacted the train operator about the unattended bag. Although Metro repeatedly has asked riders to report unattended packages, the train operator apparently ignored the passengers and continued running the train.
A passenger in another car on that train said that she saw people hitting the train's windows and running for the exits. But the Metro operator still proceeded to the next station.
When that passenger exited the train, she contacted Metro police, who told her they had not been informed about the package.
Are Metro's directives to riders just platitudes?
BRIAN NYE
Vienna
