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Growing concerns of cuts coming to Metrobus service
Instead of boosting bus lanes and other improvements all across the region, several people involved in the analysis for Metro’s Bus Transformation Project are concerned Metro may simply use it as cover to significantly cut Metrobus service in many areas.
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Metro Board member calls more trains ‘crazy’; GM may propose tweaks to hours or other service
Several Metro Board members questioned the wisdom of adding any of the extra trains or buses for which riders have been asking. “But we have a bigger mission than that,” said the agency’s general manager.
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Metro general manager gets 10 percent raise as board struggles to pay workers
Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld got a nearly 10 percent raise Thursday, as the Metro Board said it must scrounge for money from local taxpayers to cover smaller cost-of-living raises for workers.
3 weeks ago -
Metro GM Wiedefeld to get 2-year contract extension, raise
General Manager Paul Wiedefeld’s contract will now run until November 2021, and he will get a pay increase.
3 weeks ago -
Even in rain, less smoke on Metro
Overall, Metro’s fiscal year 2018 performance report covering July 2017 through the end of June 2018 lists 82 smoke or fire incidents compared to 98 in the same period a year earlier.
1 month ago -
Metro prepared for Florence as storm shifts away from DC
Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said preparations for the storm started a few days ago, just in case the storm ended up hitting the District.
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Metro says federal deadline for chains between cars could affect rush-hour service
In a letter last week, the FTA told Metro that the November 2019 deadline was unacceptable, and that the changes to avoid a “substantial risk of death or personal injury” to visually impaired riders were needed immediately.
4 months ago -
Can’t stop the music: More tunes on the way at 3 Metro stations
Music at Gallery Place, Judiciary Square and Columbia Heights is part of an effort by General Manager Paul Wiedefeld to boost rider comfort in — and perceptions of — the system.
4 months ago -
Metro approves bus route changes, funding to end ‘Grosvenor turnback’
The board is scheduled to be briefed next month on an analysis of whether adding service on the Red Line at rush hour to and from stations between Shady Grove and Grosvenor-Strathmore is even feasible.
4 months ago -
‘There was nobody looking over their shoulder’: Inspectors faulted for falling debris at Red Line station
Metro inspections crews skipped over some areas of the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro station and appeared to copy and paste parts of their reports from previous years in the months before a steel beam and concrete chunks fell from the station’s ceiling in the summer of 2016, according to a new Metro inspector general report.
5 months ago -
‘Wrench time’ ratchets up: Metro workers more productive, GM says
Metro workers have been much more productive over the past year than in the recent past, General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said, according to an internal report due to be released next week.
6 months ago -
Riders are happier with Metro, according to latest satisfaction survey
Seventy-six percent of riders surveyed on the rail system were satisfied with their trips in January, February and March — up from 69 percent at the same time last year.
6 months ago -
Metro app aims for airline quality, payments to have some limits
Metro hopes a new cellphone-based ticketing option set to launch next year will be the latest step to make the transit agency more like an airline. Metro officials provided new details of the project.
6 months ago -
DC mayor to sign dedicated Metro funding promise in one of final steps for landmark deal
The District is set to officially promise Friday morning to provide dedicated tax dollars to Metro, in one of the final steps required to seal a landmark regional funding deal.
6 months ago -
Metro responds to naked man on train, busjacking, delayed sex assault report
Overall statistics for the most serious crimes on the rail and bus system, officials said, are down to the lowest level in at least a decade.
6 months ago
