Red Lights to Illuminate More Metro Platform Edges

METRO DOESN'T HAVE TO turn on the red lights, but they're doing it anyway.

Transit officials say they plan to install new red LED platform edge lights at 16 stations in the next two months. Those come in addition to the eight stations — Gallery Place-Chinatown, Fort Totten, L'Enfant Plaza, Metro Center, Smithsonian, Union Station, Stadium-Armory and Pentagon — that already have the lights.

According to Metro, the red lights are more likely to keep customers from venturing too close to the edges of platforms.

"I've observed customers stop, and keep a safer distance from the edge of the platform, and that's why we're installing the new lights," John Catoe, Metro's general manager, said in a press release.

The stations set to receive the new lights are Navy Yard, Waterfront-SEU, Archives Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter, Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center, Foggy Bottom-GWU, Capitol South, Farragut West, Federal Triangle, McPherson Square, Federal Center SW, Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle, Farragut North, Judiciary Square, and Fort Totten.

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