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  • Memorial park for Metro crash victims delayed

    By Liz Essley | 05/13/13 07:25 PM

    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...

  • Metro track work to close 5 stations this weekend

    By Liz Essley | 05/13/13 04:55 PM

    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...

  • Crime History: Deadliest drunken-driving crash on record kills 27

    By Scott McCabe | 05/13/13 03:05 PM

    On this day, May 14, in 1988, a drunk driver traveling the wrong way near Carrollton, Ky., struck a school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire killed 27, the deadliest drunken-driving crash in history. Sixty-seven church members from Radcliff, Ky., were returning from...

  • Bob McDonnell to sign transportation tax hikes with fanfare

    By Steve Contorno | 05/12/13 10:55 PM

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday will ceremoniously sign into law the signature legislative achievement of his four-year term: a historic transportation funding package that will raise taxes to pay for much-needed roadwork on the state's congested highways. The Republican leader will sign...

  • Amtrak unveils locomotives to replace aging fleet

    By DAVID PORTER | 05/12/13 09:05 PM

    NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and better energy efficiency. On a broader scale, the new...

  • Metro touts a bus ride every 6 minutes on 'cool' Crystal City transit system

    By Liz Essley | 05/10/13 06:05 PM

    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...

  • D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh recommends higher Circulator bus fares

    By Alan Blinder | 05/08/13 03:50 PM

    Seeking an aggressive expansion of the District's Circulator bus system, a D.C. councilwoman on Wednesday proposed significant fare hikes that could double the cost of traveling along the five lines that crisscross Washington. The recommendations from Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh, who chairs...

  • Survey: 15 percent of Metro workers scared to report safety problems

    By Liz Essley | 05/07/13 06:15 PM

    Fifteen percent of Metro employees don't feel free to report safety problems without fear of retaliation, a new Metro survey says. The survey shows Metro still has work to do in building an agencywide safety mindset in the wake of the 2009 Red Line crash and a string of four worker deaths in...

  • Thieves on Metro target iPhones

    By Liz Essley | 05/06/13 08:00 PM

    Apple iPhones are Metro thieves' favorite target: The devices accounted for 67 percent of the items snatched and pickpocketed on the transit system in the first three months of the year. Nearly 100 Apple iPhones were stolen on Metro trains and buses from January to March out of a total of 144...

  • Crime in Metro parking lots hits record low

    By Liz Essley | 05/06/13 07:30 PM

    Metro's latest crime statistics contained good news for those who park their cars in Metro's garages. Crime in Metro's parking facilities hit a record low in the first three months of 2013, down 79 percent since 2010, with thieves stealing 64 percent fewer cars, 76 percent fewer objects inside...


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