Thanks, Villan. It was Jan who was on the train. I thought I'd have to go pick her up. I volunteered to do it. But her sang-froid is impressive.   She just waited in a coffeehouse and took the Red Line back again when it re-opened. But she's pretty disgusted--and has back and neck problems which are aggravated by this sort of thing, especially the jerking around and the fact she had to stand up the whole way going downtown.   She's talking about taking a taxi next time to get to downtown DC. We don't have that kind of spare cash--and you would hope the cumulative disasters would result in better maintenance. Otherwise Metro can expect to be sued bigtime.   Which is probably happening already as a result of the deadly accident earlier this year--also on the Red Line.