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  • Surveys: Many Bikeshare riders wouldn't have driven

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    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...

  • Officials: Only handful of Capital Bikeshare bikes stolen

    Kytja Weir

    Updated: 15 hr ago

    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,...

  • False alarm announcement evacuates McPherson Metro

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    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...

  • Potomac Yard Metro station delayed again

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    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.

  • WMATA fires two workers for stealing

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A Metro worker was fired after investigators discovered the person had falsified time sheets worth thousands of dollars in extra payments. The worker, one of two employees fired after recent investigations into stealing from the transit agency, had been working as a contractor for Metro at the...



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