Matt Connolly

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Major tourist attractions are trimming back as they grapple with federal budget cuts -- just in time for Washington's busy season. White House tours were canceled as school groups came to Washington over spring break, Arlington House has dropped its extended summer hours, the Smithsonian art...

Liz Essley

Published: Fri, Apr 19, 2013

There's an apparent winner in the race to build the second half of Metro's Silver Line. A team led by Clark Construction Group and Kiewit Infrastruction Co. South was the low bidder Friday for a contract to build the Silver Line's second phase, from Reston into Loudoun County via Dulles...

Liz Essley

Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

Officials in charge of building the Silver Line could decide as soon as May 3 who will build the project's billion-dollar second phase between Reston and Washington Dulles International Airport. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority will open bids from five companies on Friday in a...

Liz Essley

Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

One hundred miles south of Atlanta, a Metrorail car sits in pieces, blown apart by explosives. The car is one of eight discarded Metro rail cars used at Guardian Centers, an 830-acre emergency training facility with a minicity designed to mimic the devastation following a hurricane,...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown met with federal transportation officials Monday in hopes of securing funding for the proposed Purple and Red light rail lines. Brown outlined to U.S. Department of Transportation officials the state's new transportation funding bill -- which includes a new...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

Eager to reduce the share of cars on the road, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's plan for a more environmentally friendly city urges businesses to provide their employees incentives to take public transportation, walk or bike. But the city does not heed its own advice, instead offering its roughly...

Liz Essley

Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

Transit riders' favorite spring break is over: Metro is back at track work with an agonizing weekend of waiting lined up for riders. The agency took four weekends off from its grueling track repair schedule during the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The agency is spending $5.5 billion to...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

The D.C. government and several major roads in the city will be closed on Tuesday as the District celebrates Emancipation Day. Beginning at 4 a.m., Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed between 12th and 14th streets in Northwest. Parts of E Street Northwest and 13th Street Northwest will also be...

Taylor Holland

Updated: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

Northern Virginia lawmakers may try to tap into the state's new pot of transportation money to build a streetcar line along Columbia Pike after learning Friday that the federal government wouldn't fund the controversial plan. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's historic transportation package calls...

Liz Essley

Updated: Sun, Apr 14, 2013

Metro is planning to spend $5 million next fiscal year to hire more people to combat fatigue in its workforce -- but none of them will be bus drivers or rail operators. Sleepiness has been a problem for the agency, with some Metrobus drivers working more than 20 hours in a day and 67 caught on...