Mark Gail/The Washington Post - Metro’s Barbara J. Richardson talks about the new video destination screen inside the new 7000 rail series cars on July 6, 2011 in New Carrollton, Md.

　　More than half of Metro’

 

　　Richard Sarles, Metro’s general manager, told the agency’

 

　　The cars are part of Kawasaki’

 

　　With the additional cars, most of Metro’

 

　　About 300 of the new cars will replace Metrorail’s 1000 series cars, which have been in use since the system opened 37 years ago. Some cars in the 1000 series were involved in the 2009 crash at Fort Totten, the deadliest incident in Metro’

 

　　About 100 of the rail cars will replace the agency’

 

　　Sarles said he also expects in the next few months to set a schedule for the rail system’s return to automatic train operation, allowing for what he called a “smoother, more uniform”

 

　　About three dozen people from the transit agency’s largest union — Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 —

 

　　Metro said its policy is “fair” and applies to “everyone, uniformly, without regard to race.”