Andy Brownfield

Updated: 1 hr ago

Marylanders soon will be ticketed for texting or talking on a mobile phone while driving under a new law, but studies show such crackdowns on phone use do little to prevent traffic accidents.

Kytja Weir

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A Metro worker was fired after investigators discovered the person had falsified time sheets worth thousands of dollars in extra payments. The worker, one of two employees fired after recent investigations into stealing from the transit agency, had been working as a contractor for Metro at the...

Liz Essley

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A Virginia judge's ruling threatens to jeopardize the way Virginia is using private companies to run the Beltway Express Lanes and build similar lanes on Interstate 95. Portsmouth Circuit Court Judge James A. Cales said in an oral ruling earlier this month that he thought Virginia's tolls on...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Montgomery County residents are raising concerns about the county's proposed bus rapid transit system after planners revealed a scaled-back system that would center around Route 355 from Clarksburg to Bethesda. About 50 people testified to the county's Planning Board for more than three hours...

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: Fri, May 17, 2013

Washington residents soon will have a new way to get to Baltimore or Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on the weekends. Maryland's MARC commuter train is extending its Penn Line service to Saturday and Sunday, thanks to a $60 million cash infusion from Gov. Martin...

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

The southbound lanes of Interstate 95 have reopened in Stafford County after they were closed for several hours Friday morning due to a collision involving two tractor-trailers, police said. One of the tractor trailers rear-ended the other at about 5:10 a.m. Friday on I-95 south of Exit 133 in...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Governor signs gas tax bill to fund them ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday announced $1.2 billion in transportation projects as he signed into law a new gas tax to fund them. The projects include the proposed Purple and Red light rail lines in Montgomery and Prince...

Liz Essley

Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

Officials at Washington Dulles International Airport are trying a new tactic to lure passengers: radio ads not just for airlines or new flight options, but for the airport itself. The Virginia airport has been losing passengers over the past year, with the number of domestic passengers...

Liz Essley

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Commuters going home on the Virginia Railway Express or MARC trains Wednesday evening will face delays as the trains go slower to avoid running into heat kinks in the tracks. VRE officials said Wednesday's forecasted temperature of 88 degrees varied so widely from Tuesday's high of 67 degrees...