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Metro’s new focus is better bus service
- Metro officials, who have been largely successful in improving on-time train performance over the past several months, are gearing up to get the agency's famously unpredictable buses to run on schedule.
- Metro officials, who have been largely successful in improving on-time train performance over the past several months, are gearing up to get the agency's famously unpredictable buses to run on schedule.
Metro pushes for cameras throughout transit system
- Metro is making a major push to install cameras throughout the system in an effort to improve passenger safety.
Weekend riders to face delays as Metro fixes tracks on Green and Yellow lines
- Metro’s Green and Yellow line riders should brace for heavy delays over the next four weekends as the transit agency completes a track repair designed to correct a problem that led to a train derailment last year.
Metrorail passenger injuries down
- Metro has made significant progress in preventing passenger injuries since the start of General Manager John Catoe’s first full fiscal year at the helm of the transit agency.
Metro parking rates not likely to rise; fare increase has raised enough money
- Metro’s January fare increase has so far generated enough money for the transit agency that officials do not want to increase parking fees an additional 25 cents in July.
Metro operators jumping the gun on opening doors
- Metro operators have opened the doors before the trains have fully reached the platform at least 13 times this year, including five times since operators began a new policy of opening the doors manually 16 days ago, Metro officials acknowledged.
One out of six Metro delays caused by sick passengers
- Red Line riders were frustrated Friday morning when a sick passenger put rush-hour service at a standstill, but statistics show the situation is not uncommon.
Metro urges walkways between stations to help ease congestion
- Metro officials Thursday recommended constructing underground walkways between stations and building inter-line rail connections to help the agency solve an impending capacity crisis.
Metro deploying ‘mystery riders’ to improve its customer service
- Metro riders who complain about shoddy train service or rude station managers soon should have professionals to back them up.
Metro testing rubber, stone floors to replace carpeting in railcars
- Metro is testing four types of rubber and stone railcar floors as the transit agency moves away from using carpeting, which officials say is expensive and difficult to maintain.
- Metro is testing four types of rubber and stone railcar floors as the transit agency moves away from using carpeting, which officials say is expensive and difficult to maintain.
Ridership still climbs after Metro fare hike
- Metro’s weekday ridership, three months after its fare increase, is still up slightly from last year, but far below the surprising 6 percent jump the agency saw in January and February.
Metro operators to open doors manually
- Metro has told its train operators to manually open car doors because its automatic system sometimes opens the doors on the wrong side.
Metro to spend $250k, detour buses
- Metro will spend $250,000 to accommodate the crushing crowds expected to swarm the transit system this week during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Washington.