Kytja Weir

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Metro riders had a surprising scare Wednesday morning when the public address system told riders to evacuate the station. Turns out there was no emergency, said Metro spokeswoman Morgan Dye. The announcement ran by mistake just after 10 a.m. at the station that serves the Orange and Blue...

Kytja Weir

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Local transit and bus service will change a bit this weekend for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

Liz Essley

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

The Pentagon City Metro station is slated to get two new entrances in the next two years. Arlington County is working to build a new $5 million elevator to take riders from the street to the underground station, as well as refurbish a pedestrian tunnel built decades ago but never used. The...

Liz Essley

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

A Metro railcar at Silver Spring caught fire during Tuesday evening's rush hour, snarling Red Line commuters on their way home from work. Metro said no one was injured. Just before 6 p.m. the train offloaded its passengers one station before, at Takoma, but Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said he...

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...

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...

Liz Essley

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Metro workers will be repairing track on three lines this weekend, closing five stations. The transit agency is investing $5.5 billion to bring its infrastructure up to date. The following lines will see the work and its accompanying delays: • On the Red Line, trains will single track in...

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...

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...

Liz Essley

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Two mothers filed suit against three Metro Transit Police officers on Wednesday, saying the police brutally beat their 14-year-old children and then improperly charged them with crimes in two separate incidents. "We hope [Metro will pay attention. It seems clear to us their officers need...