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  • Spring tourists greeted by sequester cutbacks

    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...

  • Clark, Kiewit low-bidders on Silver Line's second phase

    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...

  • Dulles Rail board to pick contractor for project's second phase

    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...

  • Metro's old rail cars used for disaster training, scrap

    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,...

  • Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown pushes for Purple Line funding

    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...

  • D.C. parking program encourages city workers to drive to work

    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...

  • Metro track work to resume this weekend

    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...

  • D.C. prepares for street closures, parking changes on Tuesday

    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...

  • Northern Virginia officials look elsewhere for streetcar funding

    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...

  • Bus drivers, rail operators not in anti-fatigue plan

    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...