Transportation

Credit: The Smithsonian Metro station faces an overflow of people heading out from the cherry blossom festival on the evening of March 30. Scenes like this might come to no surprise for residents of the D.C. area with experience on Metro during high-volume events, but non-functional escalators contributed to a line stretching out this station and around the block. (WTOP/Alejandro Alvarez)

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