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Metro: Bottled Water OK on Trains, Buses Through Sunday Night

Extreme heat prompts transit authority to again make exemption to its no-drinking policy.

Thanks to , Metro is again allowing passengers to carry and consume bottled water on trains, buses and access vehicles this afternoon through the close of the system Sunday night.

The exception to the transit authority's no-drinking policy applies to water only, according to a Metro news release.

This is the that extreme heat has caused Metro to allow bottled water into the system.

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