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...

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: Tue, May 14, 2013

More Washington-area residents are taking bus or rail, walking or telecommuting as a smaller percentage of commuters drive alone or even carpool, according to a new analysis from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The share of workers relying on bus and rail to get to work...

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...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Police in Montgomery County issued nearly 140 traffic citations Friday night during a campaign to enforce the nighttime use of seat belts. From about 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, officers stationed themselves at entrance and exit ramps of Interstate 270 and the Capital Beltway. Officers...

Liz Essley

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Metro is looking for ways to get its employees to smoke less and exercise more. The transit agency is starting a program funded by the federal government to help employees improve their health through lifestyle changes. "National data has confirmed that 80 percent of heart disease, 40...

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...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

A 77-year-old Silver Spring woman was fatally struck by a vehicle when she was sitting on a bench at a Wheaton bus shelter, police said. About 4:30 p.m. Thursday, a 1996 Ford Explorer was traveling eastbound on Veirs Mill Road and then made a U-turn onto the road's westbound lanes at the...