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01/23/07
WASHINGTON - On any given work day, the subway system that serves the nation's capital and its suburbs shuttles nearly 700,000 people to their destinations - to federal jobs, to lunch meetings, to museums and memorials. Find Us On Facebook
With nearly 1,000 rail cars traveling a more than 100-mile route, Metro has been praised by transit experts as a model of efficiency and by planners as a counterweight to ever-expanding sprawl.
But a series of accidents in the past 15 months _ a derailment this month that injured 20 passengers and the deaths of four workers struck by trains _ has prompted federal safety officials to take a hard look at the nation's...
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