Metro
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Metro aims to curb dangerous rock-throwing crime
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Metro is rolling out a new campaign aimed at curbing a dangerous crime: buses are being pelted with rocks.
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Metro proposes $2.5B budget
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Metro is proposing a $2.5 billion budget that avoids fare hikes for the coming fiscal year.
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Orange Line service resumes after woman hit
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The Ballston station has re-opened after a woman was struck by a train.
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Metro track work to affect Red, Orange lines this weekend
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Heads up on some Metro track work happening this weekend: Metro has scheduled upgrades on the Red and Orange lines for January 4-6.
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Metro New Year's Eve, New Year's Day schedule amended
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Revelers who are hitting the town for New Year's Eve festivities will have an extra two hours to get home via Metro early Tuesday morning.
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Metro hours extended for Redskins-Cowboys game Sunday
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Metro will stay open an extra hour on Sunday night to help fans get home from the Redskins-Cowboys game.
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Metro legal claims total $173 million in 5 years, Examiner reports
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The Washington Examiner reports that Metro's annual claims payments averaged around $30 million between 2008 and 2011. But in the fiscal year that ended in June, payments rose to $48.5 million.
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Woman sexually assaulted near Benning Road Metro Station
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Investigators say the 20-year-old woman was walking along Central Avenue around 6:45 a.m. At 46th Place, a man wearing a ski mask grabbed the victim from behind and pulled her into a dark entryway.
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Metro delays on red, orange, green and yellow lines this weekend
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Metro says weekend work on the red, orange, green and yellow lines will cause delays for train riders.
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Selina Brown killed, child shot on Metrobus in SE
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ABC 7 News has learned the man suspected of killing 20-year-old Selina Brown aboard a Metrobus Sunday evening went to the home of his other child's mother right after the shooting. Sources say she bravely got him away from her family.
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Kevin Nguyen pleads guilty to shooting two at Rockville Metro station
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Kevin Nguyen faces up to 50 years in prison on attempted second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime charges.
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Metro ridership down 5 percent in first quarter
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Metro says train ridership was nearly 5 percent below the agency's expectations in the first quarter of the fiscal year.
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Metro weekend repairs to close Red, Green, Yellow stations
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A weekend of major construction work on all five lines of the Metrorail system is scheduled to start late Friday night, and some riders are being advised that their travel times may increased by an hour.
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DAYBREAK DAILY: Metro to track employee sleep; Montgomery County anti-abortion signs; Egypt dialogue
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Early next year, some Metro employees will be asked to log their activities and wear motion-detecting devices that resemble wristwatches in an effort to measure how much they sleep — or don’t sleep — and the effect of sleep habits on their jobs.
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Metrobus driver caught driving with newspaper
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A D.C. Metrobus driver was caught driving with a newspaper in hand. It happened during a Monday morning rush hour on a bus headed westbound from Dupont Circle.
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Metro: Safety influences Silver Line extension to Largo
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Metro says safety is behind a decision to extend the silver line service to Largo rather than ending the line at the Stadium-Armory station.
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Woodley Park Metro stabbing suspects to remain in jail
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A judge in Washington has decided four teens charged as adults in a fatal stabbing at a Metro will remain in jail until trial.
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Red line trains single-tracking between NoMa and Judiciary Square
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Red line trains are single-tracking between NoMa-Gallaudet and Judiciary Square, due to a medical emergency at Union Station, Metro said.
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