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  • Commuters troll for spots in Metro's stuffed lots

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    East Falls Church has fullest spaces Finding a parking spot at some Metro stations can mean circling the garage like a vulture in search of roadkill. The daily commuter crush means that six Metro stations have more people parking in them than they have spaces, and half a dozen more are...

  • Metro plans to develop lots but keep parking spots

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    Metro has a new plan to develop 11 slices of land near its stations. And at eight of those stations, the agency would plop the new development right on top of parking lots -- but Metro isn't planning to eliminate parking anytime soon. The list includes stations with some of the system's most...

  • D.C. to announce major new parking plans this spring

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    The District is set to introduce three new parking programs this spring that will have a big impact on drivers. The District Department of Transportation said it will release plans for an updated visitor parking pass program, a new red top meter program for people with disabilities and an...

  • D.C. roads will close Tuesday to make way for elephants

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    District drivers will have to make way for elephants Tuesday evening. Police will close roads from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. as the pachyderm stars of the Barnum & Bailey circus make their second annual walk through Washington, this year from Garfield Park near South Capitol Street SE and...

  • Metro officials consider ripping out the carpets

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

    Dirt from shoes. Snow and rain and yuck. Spilled drinks and sticky gum. Metro's burgundy carpets are evolving to a bland brown thanks to a daily dose of gross. And now Metro's top officials are thinking about ripping them out and replacing them with a speckled black, hard surface. "It was a...

  • Metro works to improve lighting in 10 stations

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

    It's going to get brighter in Metro stations. The transit agency is working on a plan to install more lighting on 17 mezzanines at 10 Metro stations, similar to new fluorescent lights recently added to the Judiciary Square station as a pilot program. "One of the areas that is being looked at...

  • Credo: Susan Barocas, director of the Jewish Food Experience

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sat, Mar 16, 2013

    D.C. resident Susan Barocas has been cooking for as long as she can remember. She still has her first cookbook, a 1957 "Betty Crocker's Cook Book for Boys and Girls." She now directs the Jewish Food Experience, a new project sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The project...

  • Tunnel that sank won't hurt Silver Line, officials say

    Liz Essley

    Published: Fri, Mar 15, 2013

    A tunnel in Tysons Corner that will hold the new Silver Line has sunk into the ground about an inch but is still big enough for trains to pass through and won't hurt the project, a new inspection shows. Engineers say the floor of the tunnel has "settled" into the ground by about an inch at its...

  • Metrobuses crashing more often

    Liz Essley

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    Metrobuses are crashing more often even as Metro makes strides toward better safety in other areas. Nearly 53 Metrobuses crashed for every million miles the transit agency's buses traveled in 2012, Metro safety chief Jim Dougherty said at a board of directors meeting Thursday. That's up from...

  • Local Catholics praise choice of Francis as pope

    Liz Essley

    Published: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    Washington-area Catholics rejoiced at the election of a new pope Wednesday, eagerly sharing the little they knew about the Argentine Jesuit and expressing support for his leadership after the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Catholic University freshman Kaitlyn Feeley, 18, skipped...


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