Transportation
May 24, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

Metro this weekend will be finishing up a major safety improvement that was due three years ago, as it undertakes major track work on the Green and Red lines.

Metro General Manager Richard Sarles said Thursday the

May 24, 2012 -- 8:00 PM

At the very moment the District is making drivers see red, it's asking them if they want to go green.

Parking tickets issued by the District now come with an environmentally friendly note suggesting the driver "Go Green

May 23, 2012 -- 1:36 PM

The District’s head of transportation is on deck to join the Metro board of directors.

District Department of Transportation Director Terry Bellamy has been nominated to fill an alternate slot on the transit agency's 16-seat board.

He

May 23, 2012 -- 1:11 PM

 

These days, a three-day holiday weekend means major Metro shutdowns and delays for extensive track work.

The transit agency is planning to close three stations, shutting off train service on the northern end of the Green Line

May 23, 2012 -- 11:33 AM

Virginia's new and improved 511 telephone information system for traffic conditions is open for business.

The new system will include mobile apps for Android and iPhone, better voice recognition on the 511 phone service, a website showing travel

May 23, 2012 -- 10:13 AM

 

A Metro rider is reporting that another set of doors opened while a train was moving.

The rider, using the Twitter handle @This_CantBLife, tweeted that the doors on a Green Line train bound

May 22, 2012 -- 8:26 PM

The Silver Spring Transit Center does not meet Montgomery County building code requirements, although it may meet minimum national safety standards, a new engineering analysis has found.

The analysis by Parsons

May 22, 2012 -- 7:02 PM

Drivers on the Dulles Toll Road could save nearly $1 per trip -- or about $450 per year for regular commuters -- if the authority in charge of the toll road would change how it used

May 22, 2012 -- 3:22 PM

The Washington metropolitan area has the 6th worst traffic in the nation, according to a new scorecard by Inrix, a traffic tracker.

Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Bridgeport, Conn., all beat out the nation’s capital

May 22, 2012 -- 11:45 AM

Va. state Senator David Marsden, D-Burke, and other community leaders tagged along for the grueling commutes of some low-income residents in the Washington region Tuesday morning.

Marsden shadowed single mother Makeiah Butler, an Alexandria resident

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