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01/10/2008

Report Five: 09 January 2008

Things continue to be stale at Westlake on the Red Line, where the escalators have been dead at least four consecutive days. (How long does it take to service these things? And why is it that the escalators at Union Station are never dead?)

 

Pershing Square is usually troublesome on the side that is too often used by the homeless and vagrants. After a few days of working escalators, the one leading up to the non-working APT was dead, as were one of those leading from the platform to the mezzanine:

 

 

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