Morning Roundup: Sliding Doors Edition

Good morning, Washington. We hope you enjoyed plenty of the sunshine and breezes the city offered up this weekend, and that you were neither pecked to death by your urban chickens nor stung into submission by your urban beehive. What's next exactly for our tiny D.C. rowhouse backyards? Urban llamas?

Metro Operators Still Opening Doors Too Soon: Despite assurances from General Manager John Catoe that new safety measures had been put in place to prevent Metro operators from opening train doors too soon, the dangerous mistake is definitely still happening, the Post reports. "From March to May, there were 17 such door incidents, all but three involving eight-car trains that were not properly berthed." The end of the story indicates much of the problem could be solved by having operators stop every train at the end of the platform every time, like they do in San Francisco. That would of course involve passengers needing to move to one end of the platform when trains with fewer than eight cars were in use.

Permanent Gun Regulations in Place, For Now: The District's revised, post-Heller gun registration laws went into permanent effect on Friday, the Examiner reports, but of course how long they'll stay is an open question. Dick Heller is suing the city again over the laws, and the D.C. House Voting Rights Act, with its amendment to repeal the laws, is still pending.

Briefly Noted: Man shot and killed in Northeast ... Bike trail opens on Wilson Bridge ... Fire destroys Rockville landmark ... Woman dies in overnight crash on Suitland Parkway.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, Fenty and Lanier introduced their All Hands on Deck crime fighting initiative for the very first time, and in 2006, we recommended a few rooftop drinking options.