Metro announced six-minute wait times and a "cool" blue design for the Washington area's first bus rapid transit system, scheduled to open in Northern Virginia next spring.
The five-mile corridor between the Pentagon City and Braddock Road Metro stations will have four miles of lanes dedicated...
"Mayor for Life" Marion Barry started his public career as a civil rights activist in the 1960s and later became mayor of the nation's capital. The 77-year-old is perhaps most famous for his 1990 arrest on drug charges, but that didn't stop his political comeback: He was elected mayor again in...
Metro won't be paying D.C. Councilman Jim Graham's legal bills.
The transit agency's board of directors denied a petition Thursday from Graham, the board's former chairman, to pay for his private legal counsel in a $100 million lawsuit over a Metro land deal.
An independent review...
Two mothers filed suit against three Metro Transit Police officers on Wednesday, saying the police brutally beat their 14-year-old children and then improperly charged them with crimes in two separate incidents.
"We hope [Metro will pay attention. It seems clear to us their officers need...
Fifteen percent of Metro employees don't feel free to report safety problems without fear of retaliation, a new Metro survey says.
The survey shows Metro still has work to do in building an agencywide safety mindset in the wake of the 2009 Red Line crash and a string of four worker deaths in...
Apple iPhones are Metro thieves' favorite target: The devices accounted for 67 percent of the items snatched and pickpocketed on the transit system in the first three months of the year.
Nearly 100 Apple iPhones were stolen on Metro trains and buses from January to March out of a total of 144...
Metro's latest crime statistics contained good news for those who park their cars in Metro's garages.
Crime in Metro's parking facilities hit a record low in the first three months of 2013, down 79 percent since 2010, with thieves stealing 64 percent fewer cars, 76 percent fewer objects inside...
Joel Bailes plays an upright piano on the sidewalks and promenades of Barracks Row and Eastern Market as the leader of a folk and jazz band called the Capitol Hillbillies. He also works at the Library of Congress.
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Metro's ongoing $5.5 billion rebuilding effort will close four stations on the Orange Line this weekend, as well as force trains to share a single tracks on the Red, Blue and Yellow lines, starting at 10 p.m. Friday.
Here's where riders can expect delays this weekend:
• On the Orange Line,...
D.C.'s downtown L Street bike lane will get a twin this summer: a bike lane on M Street headed the opposite direction.
D.C. officials plan to install the lane in August, eliminating 40 to 80 parking spaces to do so.
The lane will look similar to the eastbound L Street bike lane installed in...