Liz Essley
Staff Writer - Transportation
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College Park Metro station to be closed for University of Maryland graduation
Liz Essley
Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013
The University of Maryland will hold its commencement ceremony on Sunday, but those attending won't be able to take Metrorail there. The College Park-University of Maryland station will be closed for the weekend, with two other Green Line stations, as Metro crews update tracks and help build a...
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More people avoid cars as workers move closer to jobs
Liz Essley
Published: Tue, May 14, 2013
More Washington-area residents are taking bus or rail, walking or telecommuting as a smaller percentage of commuters drive alone or even carpool, according to a new analysis from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The share of workers relying on bus and rail to get to work...
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Memorial park for Metro crash victims delayed
Liz Essley
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
A park memorializing the victims of the 2009 Metro Red Line crash is delayed, two years after Mayor Vincent Gray pledged to build the $1.8 million project. Gray pledged in 2011 to build a park near the site of the crash in which nine people died and dozens more were injured outside the Fort...
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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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