Liz Essley
Staff Writer - Transportation
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Metro touts a bus ride every 6 minutes on 'cool' Crystal City transit system
Liz Essley
Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
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...
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Credo: Marion Barry
Liz Essley
Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
"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...
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Metro denies appeal from Councilman Jim Graham for legal help
Liz Essley
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
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...
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Survey: 15 percent of Metro workers scared to report safety problems
Liz Essley
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
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...
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Thieves on Metro target iPhones
Liz Essley
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
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...
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Crime in Metro parking lots hits record low
Liz Essley
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
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...
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Metro to close four Orange Line stations this weekend
Liz Essley
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
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,...
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New D.C. bike lane slated for M Street
Liz Essley
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
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...
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