Liz Essley

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Drivers planning their routes through summer construction traffic also should prepare their cars for heat and pay attention to the road, travel experts say. "Take a five-minute walk around your car," said Maryland State Highway Administration spokesman Charlie Gischlar, explaining that summer...

Liz Essley

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Drivers, get ready for summer stop-and-go. That's the message from Washington-area transportation agencies as they roll out their construction crews for the intense road work possible only in the summer, when temperatures are high enough and rain rare enough to let them to put down lots of...

Kytja Weir

Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

A Metro maintenance worker has been arrested and charged with stealing defibrillators from rail stations, the transit agency said Friday afternoon. Derrick Davis, 40, of Laurel was arrested Wednesday in an undercover sting after allegedly posting an ad on eBay to sell an automatic external...

Kytja Weir

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

A 50-year-old Montgomery County pedestrian died after he was hit by a Metrobus late Wednesday in Olney, according to Montgomery County police. Ronald Maurice Johnson of Brookeville was hit as a Metrobus pulled away from the curb at Georgia Avenue near Olney-Sandy Spring Road around 11:08 p.m....

Kytja Weir

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Should Metro stops look like a capsule or a leggy dot? Metro has made additional minor changes to its latest map design and is asking for help choosing between two finalists, specifically on how to represent stations on the wayfinding maps. The transit agency is redoing the iconic map of the...

Kytja Weir

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Capital Bikeshare is saving cash and time for its riders, making them healthier while also taking cars off the roads and spurring economic development, according to two new surveys of riders. But the service appears to be having an unintended result of shifting some riders away from walking or...

Liz Essley

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Northern Virginia transportation officials have a long wish list for the first $180 million expected to flow into their coffers in the next year from tax increases in Gov. Bob McDonnell's new roads package -- including widening traffic-clogged Route 28 and Route 1. The Northern Virginia...

Kytja Weir

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

Capital Bikeshare has shiny red bikes on street corners all over the region, with plans to expand. But surprisingly, those cherry red numbers haven't been stolen very often. Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010,...

Alan Blinder and Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The D.C. Council, setting aside its members' annual frustrations about a public budget fashioned in private, voted unanimously on Wednesday to support a $10 billion plan that would increase Circulator bus fares, end the city's tax on certain bonds and earmark a potential spigot of Internet sales...

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...