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  • Medical examiner staffer to patrol Metro for inauguration

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: Sun, Jan 20, 2013

    The Metrorail system on Inauguration Day will be crawling with hundreds of thousands of riders, police and officials -- including a roving medical examiner. An employee of the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is slated to accompany Metro's Transit Police detectives around the downtown...

  • Ex-VRE manager sentenced to 2 years in kickback scheme

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Fri, Jan 18, 2013

    A former Virginia Railway Express manager was sentenced Friday to two years behind bars for taking more than $350,000 in bribes from a subcontractor. Kevin Wirth Jannell, 49, of Fredericksburg, Va., pleaded guilty in September to bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. He could...

  • Metro awards $151m contract to upgrade escalators at 34 stations

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    Metro has awarded an $151.1 million contract to a Finnish company to fix or replace 128 escalators at 40 percent of its stations in the next seven years. The work calls for replacing up to 88 escalators by 2018 and 40 more by 2020 at a total of 34 of Metro's 86 stations. "Many of these are...

  • The 3-Minute Interview: Fairfax bicycling advocate Bruce Wright

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    The 63-year-old retired federal worker, who is chairman of the Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling, explains what it's like to get around by bike in the winter. How do you stay warm? So there are a couple of challenges. Around here where I live in Fairfax, the commutes are generally a...

  • Metro's top leader wins national safety kudos

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    Metro's general manager was awarded a national safety award Thursday as one of eight chief executive officers who "get it" when it comes to creating a culture of safety. Richard Sarles was awarded the 2013 CEOs Who Get It recognition from the National Safety Council, a nonprofit organization...

  • New Silver Line rail cars to arrive months after line opening

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Wed, Jan 16, 2013

    The new rail cars ordered for Metro's Silver Line face even more delays and won't arrive until months after the new line's scheduled opening date, according to the authority building the project. The first pilot 7000-series rail cars being built by Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. will arrive in...

  • Metro won't receive much -- if any -- Sandy relief

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Wed, Jan 16, 2013

    Transit agencies stand to benefit from a $50.7 billion federal relief bill for areas affected by Superstorm Sandy, but Metro is not one of them, despite losing about $5 million due to the storm. The House passed a major relief bill Tuesday night that helps areas affected by the October storm...

  • Metro train crashes, derails in New Carrollton rail yard; no one injured

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: Tue, Jan 15, 2013

    A train derailed in a Metro rail yard over the weekend, crashing into another train and damaging three rail cars plus other equipment. No one was injured, but it was the latest safety problem to occur on Metro's rail system. The chairman of the Tri-State Oversight Committee, which monitors...

  • Metro: Extensive track work for 4 more years

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: Mon, Jan 14, 2013

    Metro riders will have to weather about four more years of intensive track work on the train system, according to the agency's general manager. That means more delays, waiting and closed stations in what seems like the new normal at Metro. "In looking at the forecast of work we have to do to...

  • Metro operator put on leave after doors open on wrong side

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: Mon, Jan 14, 2013

    A train operator has been placed on paid leave while Metro investigates why the doors of a Green Line train opened on the wrong side Friday evening, exposing riders to the open track at L'Enfant Plaza. The train heading to Greenbelt pulled into the station around 7:16 p.m., according to Metro...


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