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  • Metro sidesteps D.C. Council questions on train breakdowns, employee perks

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Metro missed a deadline to answer key oversight questions from the D.C. Council, despite being given an extra month to respond. A D.C. Council committee in March asked Metro to list its employees who received cellphones and iPads or who were assigned vehicles or took trips on Metro's dime. It...

  • Metro track work on four lines this weekend

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Metro riders can expect long waits for trains this weekend yet again as Metro continues its track repairs. Crews are rebuilding the system bit by bit after years of neglect. Also, Metro will open early on Sunday, at 5 a.m., for the Nike Women Half Marathon. Riders can expect the following...

  • Few Metro board members commute on system daily

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    Few Metro board members face the daily rush hour frustrations of regular rail commuters. Only two Metro board members of the 13 interviewed by The Washington Examiner commute on the transit system daily. Rules passed last year require the board of directors to use the system -- though they...

  • The 3-Minute Interview: Magazine editor Charlie Heck

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    Heck, a Columbia Heights resident, is editor-in-chief of Luri and Wilma, an online magazine that recently came out with its first print edition. What made you want to start a magazine? Three girls and I graduated from a University of North Texas Mayborn College of Journalism, and we...

  • Credo: Faizul Khan, imam of the Islamic Society of the Washington Area

    Liz Essley

    Updated: Fri, Apr 19, 2013

    Faizul Khan serves as the imam of the Islamic Society of the Washington Area, based in Silver Spring. Born into a Muslim home in Guyana, Khan has lived in the U.S. for about 40 years, serving the Islamic Society the entire time. The society was founded by Muslims from the Caribbean region and...

  • Clark, Kiewit low-bidders on Silver Line's second phase

    Liz Essley

    Published: Fri, Apr 19, 2013

    There's an apparent winner in the race to build the second half of Metro's Silver Line. A team led by Clark Construction Group and Kiewit Infrastruction Co. South was the low bidder Friday for a contract to build the Silver Line's second phase, from Reston into Loudoun County via Dulles...

  • Dulles Rail board to pick contractor for project's second phase

    Liz Essley

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    Officials in charge of building the Silver Line could decide as soon as May 3 who will build the project's billion-dollar second phase between Reston and Washington Dulles International Airport. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority will open bids from five companies on Friday in a...

  • Metro's old rail cars used for disaster training, scrap

    Liz Essley

    Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    One hundred miles south of Atlanta, a Metrorail car sits in pieces, blown apart by explosives. The car is one of eight discarded Metro rail cars used at Guardian Centers, an 830-acre emergency training facility with a minicity designed to mimic the devastation following a hurricane,...

  • Metro track work to resume this weekend

    Liz Essley

    Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    Transit riders' favorite spring break is over: Metro is back at track work with an agonizing weekend of waiting lined up for riders. The agency took four weekends off from its grueling track repair schedule during the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The agency is spending $5.5 billion to...

  • Bus drivers, rail operators not in anti-fatigue plan

    Liz Essley

    Updated: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

    Metro is planning to spend $5 million next fiscal year to hire more people to combat fatigue in its workforce -- but none of them will be bus drivers or rail operators. Sleepiness has been a problem for the agency, with some Metrobus drivers working more than 20 hours in a day and 67 caught on...


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