In response to serious safety concerns regarding Washington, DC’s Metrorail system, in May 2016 the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority started SafeTrack—a large-scale rehabilitation project. Along with addressing immediate safety concerns, SafeTrack was intended to tackle a backlog of track maintenance projects.

A team led by Mark Goldstein, a director in our Physical Infrastructure team, recently looked at the SafeTrack project, and safety and oversight issues with DC’s Metrorail. Listen to what they found:

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