Left Behind?: News 4 I-Team Looks at Plans for the Disabled in a Metro Emergency

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Kelly Mack uses Metro every day to commute to work and asked the News4 I-Team to go along with her to look at the entrance to the safety walkway at the end of the Farragut North Metro Station.

“No way,” she said. “There’s absolutely no way my chair would fit on this.”

She parked her motorized wheelchair in front of the evacuation path. She said she looked at it after last month’s incident when one woman died and many passengers self-evacuated after being trapped in smoke-filled cars.

Mack said she’s now realized the evacuation path isn’t wide enough for her standard-sized chair and the platform is cut-off by a set of stairs.