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  • Metro plans to develop lots but keep parking spots

    Liz Essley

    Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

    Metro has a new plan to develop 11 slices of land near its stations. And at eight of those stations, the agency would plop the new development right on top of parking lots -- but Metro isn't planning to eliminate parking anytime soon. The list includes stations with some of the system's most...

  • Metro officials consider ripping out the carpets

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

    Dirt from shoes. Snow and rain and yuck. Spilled drinks and sticky gum. Metro's burgundy carpets are evolving to a bland brown thanks to a daily dose of gross. And now Metro's top officials are thinking about ripping them out and replacing them with a speckled black, hard surface. "It was a...

  • Metro works to improve lighting in 10 stations

    Liz Essley

    Published: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

    It's going to get brighter in Metro stations. The transit agency is working on a plan to install more lighting on 17 mezzanines at 10 Metro stations, similar to new fluorescent lights recently added to the Judiciary Square station as a pilot program. "One of the areas that is being looked at...

  • D.C. teen arrested in pair of Metro sexual assaults

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Fri, Mar 15, 2013

    A District teenager who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on a Metro station platform and an Orange Line train has been arrested, officials said. Michael Levaughn Williams, 19, is accused of approaching a woman on a platform at the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station on Jan. 29 and groping her,...

  • Metrobuses crashing more often

    Liz Essley

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    Metrobuses are crashing more often even as Metro makes strides toward better safety in other areas. Nearly 53 Metrobuses crashed for every million miles the transit agency's buses traveled in 2012, Metro safety chief Jim Dougherty said at a board of directors meeting Thursday. That's up from...

  • Metro train comes close to hitting two workers

    Liz Essley

    Updated: Wed, Mar 13, 2013

    A Metro train narrowly missed hitting two track workers during a test, and an oversight group and Metro are now both investigating the incident. The workers were inspecting the track between the Vienna and Dunn Loring stations about noon on Feb. 5 when they were almost hit by a train being...

  • Spending on overtime reaches $42.7 million for Metro

    Liz Essley

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Agency has blown through 72 percent of annual OT budget Metro spent 42 percent more than budgeted for overtime in the first six months of its fiscal year, or an extra $12.7 million, using the high-paying hours to fix and inspect trains and fill staffing gaps. Metro used up about 72 percent...

  • Metro to do trackwork on Red and Orange lines, March 15-17

    Liz Essley

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Metro riders should expect slow-going on the Red and Orange lines this weekend as crews repair tracks. Yellow, Blue and Green line riders are off the hook this weekend, March 15-17. The trackwork is part of Metro's ongoing effort to catch up on maintenance after the 2009 Red Line crash that...

  • Metro rider throws suitcases onto tracks

    Liz Essley

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Metro's Red Line was delayed Tuesday afternoon after a rider threw two suitcases onto the tracks at the Woodley Park/Zoo station. Trains single-tracked while workers retrieved the suitcases, thrown on the tracks around 1 p.m., Metro spokeswoman Caroline Lukas said. Metro transit police...

  • Prince George's Council resurrects transit-oriented development bills

    Matt Connolly

    Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

    Supporters of the pair of transit-oriented development bills that stalled in the Prince George's County Council are hoping for better luck with two similar bills introduced this year. The proposals would make it easier for some projects to get through the oft-arduous planning process if they...