Metro officials said Thursday that computer-driven trains will return to the Red Line during rush hours on Monday, nearly six years after the system failed catastrophically, resulting in a crash that killed nine people.
The return to automatic train operation (ATO), under which train operators open and close doors and make announcements but the computers do the driving, comes after $18 million in engineering work. Initially, it will resume only on eight-car trains during peak travel times.
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