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By Kytja Weir | 05/27/13 04:55 PM
Metro is starting to sell unlimited seven-day rail passes on plastic fare cards instead of just paper this week, a boon to riders. But it will be another few months before it may make sense for many riders to start buying them. Within "a little less than a year," Metro plans to let riders...
By Kytja Weir | 05/27/13 04:25 PM
A commuter train employee has been fired after he was caught cooking the books to boost the on-time performance record for Virginia Railway Express trains. The worker was caught changing the time of a Fredericksburg train that ran in March, according to VRE and the operations service that runs...
By Kytja Weir | 05/24/13 03:10 PM
A Metro maintenance worker has been arrested and charged with stealing defibrillators from rail stations, the transit agency said Friday afternoon. Derrick Davis, 40, of Laurel was arrested Wednesday in an undercover sting after allegedly posting an ad on eBay to sell an automatic external...
By Kytja Weir | 05/23/13 05:50 PM
A 50-year-old Montgomery County pedestrian died after he was hit by a Metrobus late Wednesday in Olney, according to Montgomery County police. Ronald Maurice Johnson of Brookeville was hit as a Metrobus pulled away from the curb at Georgia Avenue near Olney-Sandy Spring Road around 11:08 p.m....
By Kytja Weir | 05/23/13 05:00 PM
Should Metro stops look like a capsule or a leggy dot? Metro has made additional minor changes to its latest map design and is asking for help choosing between two finalists, specifically on how to represent stations on the wayfinding maps. The transit agency is redoing the iconic map of the...
By Kytja Weir | 05/22/13 05:20 PM
Capital Bikeshare is saving cash and time for its riders, making them healthier while also taking cars off the roads and spurring economic development, according to two new surveys of riders. But the service appears to be having an unintended result of shifting some riders away from walking or...
By Kytja Weir | 05/22/13 04:20 PM
Capital Bikeshare has shiny red bikes on street corners all over the region, with plans to expand. But surprisingly, those cherry red numbers haven't been stolen very often. Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010,...
By Kytja Weir | 05/22/13 03:10 PM
Metro riders had a surprising scare Wednesday morning when the public address system told riders to evacuate the station. Turns out there was no emergency, said Metro spokeswoman Morgan Dye. The announcement ran by mistake just after 10 a.m. at the station that serves the Orange and Blue...
By Kytja Weir | 05/21/13 06:30 PM
Plans to build a Metro station at Alexandria's Potomac Yard have hit another snag, pushing back the opening of a potential station there to 2017 at the earliest.
By Kytja Weir | 05/21/13 01:55 PM
Local transit and bus service will change a bit this weekend for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
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