How A Subway Finds Its Voice

After nearly a decade, the voice of the Washington D.C. Metro is up for grabs.

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January 31, 2006, 11:00 AM PST

If our nation's capital had a hall of fame, Sandy Carroll would be inducted next week. When she intones 'doors closing' for the last time, the city should respond with an equally soft: 'doors opening.'

...Moving away from a kinder, gentler era, Metro opened the new year with a contest for a more authoritative - even cheekier - voice of the subway. In just three weeks, the 'Doors Closing Voice 2006' contest drew more than 1,200 entrants from as far away as the west coast."

Read the full story: Backstory: How a subway finds its voice

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 in The Christian Science Monitor

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