iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Washington Metro

Metro Deploys New Email, Text Alert System

AP | Posted 02.29.2012 | DC
Read More: DC News, Virginia, Video, Washington Metro, District of Columbia, Public Transportation, Wmata, Metro Bus, Metro Subway, Public Transit, DC Transit, Metro, Maryland, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Washington D.C.'s Metro has created a new email and text message alert system designed to provide customers with the latest information ...

Read Whole Story

Megan Arellano

Dupont Commuters Enjoy Last Few Days Of Unreliable Escalators

HuffingtonPost.com | Megan Arellano | Posted 03.28.2012 | DC
Read More: South Dupont Metro, Video, Farragut North, Washington Metro, Dupont Metro, District of Columbia, Escalator Repairs, Wmata, Dupont Circle Metro, Commuting, Q Street, Escalators, Metro Delays, Dupont Circle, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Dupont Circle commuters are enduring the last few days of unreliable escalators at the Metrorail Red Line station's south entrance -- an...

Read Whole Story

$6 Metro Fares? Some Riders Could Face Big Price Hikes

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2012 | DC
Read More: Metro Board of Directors, Washington Metro, New Metro Fares, Richard Sarles, Wmata, Metro, Dc Metro, Video, Metrobus, Smartrip, New Metrorail Fares, Metro Fares, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Prepare to pay higher Metro fares, especially if you don't have a SmarTrip card. Richard Sarles, general manager of the Washington Metro...

Read Whole Story

Michael Grass

More Frustrations At Farragut North

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Grass | Posted 11.14.2011 | DC
Read More: Metro-Delays, Dupont Escalator, Metro Escalators, Video, Washington Metro, Farragut North, District of Columbia, Dupont Circle Escalators, Wmata, Dupont Escalator Closed, Metro, Dupont Circle, DC News

WASHINGTON -- When Metro closes the south entrance of the Dupont Circle station in Northwest Washington for a total reconstruction of its three mechan...

Read Whole Story

Village Green: Solving Sprawl with Basketball

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Sports, Sustainability, Development, Cities, Public Transportation, Georgetown Hoyas, Verizon Center, Washington Metro, Washington Nationals, Big East Tournament, Washington Capitals, Syracuse Basketball, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

The hero of this story is then-Wizards/Capitals owner Abe Pollin, who moved his teams from the suburbs to a transit-rich location in downtown DC.

Read Whole Story

Train Crash, Washington D.C. Investigated By Feds

AP | SARAH KARUSH and BRIAN WESTLEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dc Metro, Train Crash Washington d.c., d.c. Train Crash, Washington Metro, Dc Train Collision, Washington Metro Crash, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains focused Tuesday on why a computerized system failed to halt...

Read Whole Story