Transportation
Recent Transportation News
15 hours 41 min ago
It took just eight days for Metro to need its emergency plans for the Dupont Circle station while it does a massive escalator overhaul.
1 day 17 hours ago
D.C. cab riders will keep paying 50 cents for every bag a cabbie puts in his trunk, in addition to paying higher per-mile rates, under a new plan proposed by regulators Wednesday.
2 days 14 hours ago
Union: Mechanics warned MontCo of problems before purchase
3 days 15 hours ago
A D.C. man is suing two Metro cops, saying they violated his civil rights and injured him when they threw him from his wheelchair during an arrest last spring.
4 days 13 hours ago
Nearly a third of Metro's 11,490 bus stops are not handicapped accessible, leaving riders in wheelchairs unable to access the bus system, according to the transit agency.
Kathi and Pat Spray, who live in Riverdale in Prince George's County and both use wheelchairs, have felt it firsthand.
1 week 13 hours ago
Metro has scaled down its hiring plans for the next budget cycle, seeking to add 877 positions instead of 1,013, agency officials said Thursday.
The projected cost of adding all the positions would have been $88 million of the $2.6 billion budget request but is now about $72 million.
1 week 13 hours ago
Metro's Red Line riders will need to endure three more years before major track work has finished on the system's busiest line, the transit agency said Thursday.
But that doesn't mean the delays that riders regularly face on their commutes will end in 2015.
1 week 13 hours ago
The first phase of the Dulles Rail project, which was six months behind schedule last August, is now just 11 days late and on target to be completed next year, officials said.
That's because managers and contractors were able to accelerate work on some parts of the $2.8 billion project, said Pat Nowakowski, the project manager.
1 week 1 day ago
Metro riders weathered yet another cracked rail on Monday, the fifth time in a single month that cracks along the metal tracks slowed down trains.
The problems have been getting worse. Cracks on Metro's 106-mile rail system have become more frequent in the past three years, according to transit agency statistics. Last year, Metro had 49 cracks on the system compared with 33 in 2010, and 19 in 2009.
1 week 2 days ago
Virginia lawmakers moved Tuesday to withhold $150 million in funding for Dulles Rail if the authority in charge of the project forces contractors to use a union-friendly labor agreement.
