Commanders fan Chris Comerford described his late-night Sunday Metro ride as frustrating; his ride home turned into a two-hour trip instead of his typical one-hour commute.
In addition, he said when he finally got off the train, he was stuck inside the Vienna Metro station with both exits locked.
“It was a long Metro ride home, a couple of transfers, and when we finally got home and I walked up to the gate to go out to get my Uber, I saw a big chain on the door,” he said. “When I jiggled it, it was locked, and I looked down the other end of the Metro, and that side was locked too. We just had a group of people kind of wandering around.”
A spokesperson for Metro said the transit agency has reviewed video footage to determine what happened at the Virginia station.
“Preliminary investigation shows the station manager at Vienna Station locked the outside gate in an effort to prevent customers from entering while they performed a final station check for the night. The last Orange Line train entered the station at 1:39 a.m.,” according to a Metro spokesperson.
Metro said customers were unable to leave for five minutes.
“According to video footage, the last customers from that train were exiting the mezzanine area around 1:43 a.m., at which time the station manager followed those customers to allow them to exit via the outside gate. Customers were unable to exit for five minutes,” a Metro spokesperson said.
With an Uber waiting on the other side of the gate, Comerford said he believes his wait was longer than five minutes,
“I was out there by myself for quite a while,” he said. “I would guess when the last people came off the train. It’s a long train. It takes a while to walk up. They probably waited maybe five minutes. I think I waited longer than that.”
Comerford’s post was viewed more than 600,000 times on TikTok.
“I like to take the Metro to the game,” he said. “It’s quick. It’s easy. But yeah, I might reconsider the late-night travel on the train.”
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