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Friends, foes or both? Metro, Uber, Lyft in talks on late-night service
Even as Metro tries to compete with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft, the transit system hopes to finalize agreements in coming months for late-night transportation services with the companies.
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Metro hopes riders will buy into cheaper monthly, weekly passes
Metro hopes to lure back riders next year with discounted and expanded unlimited-ride passes as a way to head off long-term forecasts of limited rider revenue growth.
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Weekend track work slows all but Green Line as Thanksgiving getaway kicks off
Metro track work slows all but the Green Line this weekend, as events and holiday travel have impacts on the roads. Find out how to get around.
5 days ago -
Potomac Yard Metro entrance to be restored as part of Amazon deal
Virginia promised Amazon it will spend up to $295 million on transportation projects, plus money given directly to Amazon if the company brings all of the jobs it promised to the Crystal City area.
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Metro won’t expand cash-free buses — yet
The Metro Board is set to vote Thursday to extend a six-month pilot on a single line — Route 79 between Silver Spring and downtown D.C. — rather than take any permanent action on a proposal to expand the cash ban.
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What Alexandria Metro riders need to know as major station work kicks off
Major construction that begins this weekend at the King Street Metro station has Alexandria warning riders to avoid being dropped off or picked up at the station in a car for the next two years.
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Plan ahead, but traffic ‘back to normal’ at Reagan National after Friday’s chaos
Airport officials advise travelers and those picking up friends and family members at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, to give themselves extra time through Monday due to the closure of metro stations in the area.
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Metro wins ruling on whether it owns its stations, tunnels
The finding addresses a fiber optic cable provider’s efforts to stop paying Metro for the rights to run communications cables through Metro’s tunnels.
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More cases settled after train filled with smoke near L’Enfant Plaza in 2015
Metro has reached settlements with a few more people injured in the deadly 2015 Yellow Line smoke incident near L’Enfant Plaza.
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Company behind faulty Silver Line concrete blames ‘rogue employee’
Universal Concrete Products and its president and co-owner Donald Faust filed their first formal responses this week to a whistleblower lawsuit backed by the federal government and state of Virginia.
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WTOP track work guide: Crystal City, Reagan National stops closed through Veterans Day weekend
Crystal City and Reagan National Airport Metro stations is closed from Friday, Nov. 9, through the end of Veterans Day weekend, on Monday, Nov. 12.
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My Take: There are a whole, lotta criminals riding Metro, it seems
On My Take, Clinton Yates has a solution to lower the alleged crimes being committed on Metro.
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Get ready for the Yellow Line shutdown from Nov. 26 to Dec. 9
Metro’s Yellow Line falls off the map for two weeks starting the Monday after Thanksgiving as the transit agency shuts down the bridge over the Potomac River for repairs.
2 weeks ago -
Woman in motorized wheelchair struck by train at Friendship Heights station
A woman in a motorized wheelchair was struck by a Shady Grove-bound train at Friendship Heights Metro Station Sunday afternoon.
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How many people used extra Metro service during Capitals’ Stanley Cup run?
When the Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup this spring, there was almost as much drama about whether Metro would stay open as there was on the ice. But data obtained by WTOP show relatively few people ended up using the extra Metro service, except on the night the Capitals actually won the title.
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