Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....

The Blue and Orange lines on the Metro were all backed up this evening owing to the need for what Metro called a "tunnel inspection" near McPherson Square. In fact, just as I got down to the platform at Metro Center, they were throwing everybody off an Orange line train and taking it out of service.

I'm no civic engineer, but I'm guessing that routine maintenance checks are not normally scheduled for the height of rush hour.

The Metro announcer was good enough at one point to say that the inspection results turned out "negative", but I don't recall him saying this more than once.

Wonder what exactly they were inspecting for.