Metro installs cameras to deter crime

"Riders want to feel safe when they're using Metro," said Metro Board Chairman Jim Graham.

"Having cameras monitoring the streets leading to our stations gives us extra eyes to see what's going on in and around our system, and helps us make the Metro system safer," says Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn.

You'll find the cameras at the following stations:

• Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood;
• Congress Heights;
• Deanwood;
• Minnesota Avenue;
• Fort Totten;
• Takoma;
• Brookland-CUA;
• Columbia Heights;
• Georgia Avenue-Petworth;
• Tenleytown-AU;
• Vienna/Fairfax-GMU;
• Franconia-Springfield.

Metro says an additional camera will go up at Georgia Avenue-Petworth after construction on an adjacent building is finished.

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