WTOP is reporting that Joshua Stoll and Michael Feiock, the two men who died in July when their heads hit an overpass while riding on the roof of an Open Top Sightseeing bus shuttling fans to Nationals Park, were legally drunk when they died. Police believe both men were standing on the seats at the time of the crash. Open Top is still operating its regular tour buses in D.C., but its Nationals shuttles have......

You had to know this was coming. Open Top Sightseeing, the bus company that operates the Nationals shuttle on which two people died on Friday night when their heads hit an overpass, is suspending the service for the time being. Open Top wouldn't talk with reporters for a couple days after the accident, but their lawyer, Jim Rodio, has since spoken to the Associated Press, and this is the first time we've seen an answer......

Metro maintenance can be disruptive. It's not a secret - weekend work is something that can really throw a wrench into your plans. You've often commented wondering why Metro has to take weekends, sometimes many in a row, to fix a track switch. Well in case you missed the Post's awesome Commuter graphic this week, make sure to check it out to get a feel for how much labor and intricate planning actually goes into......

The Examiner yesterday brought us the unfortunate news that Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham is putting a temporary kibosh on the long-planned first phase of DDOT's streetcar plans. The first stage of the plan - noted as "Anacostia Phase 1" on the map to your right - would link Bolling Air Force Base to Anacostia Metro station. The line's a vital part of the District's long-term plans to connect the majority of Southeast......

Last week, we learned that DDOT was planning on creating an "intercity bus loading zone" near L'Entant Plaza in Southwest - many of you found the idea rash, unnecessary, and potentially deadly for bus businesses. Well, you can at least take solace in the fact that Greater Greater Washington's David Alpert is on your side. Alpert has created a website which asks District officials to, at the very least, sit down and talk with residents......

We know you love being able to grab a cheap bus to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other destinations along the east cost. Entrepreneurs know it too, which is why we've kept track of an explosion in new intercity bus options recently, including BoltBus, Megabus, and DC2NY, along with the traditional Chinatown buses. But with so many more buses picking up and dropping off in several areas of downtown, the District Department of Transportation......

Somehow we missed the news that UK-based Megabus.com (which began its first service in the U.S. in Chicago in 2006) began running low-cost bus service between D.C. and New York on May 30. We spotted this Megabus bus stop sign outside Metro Center on Friday. Much like relative newcomer BoltBus, Megabus.com offers tickets as low as $1 if you book early enough, as well as free wireless internet on board. Looks like they actually......

Remember yesterday, when we noted that the Federal Transit Administration's tool for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of transit projects was slightly out of whack? Well, it looks like it's got some company in the "crazy" department, with new FTA regulations that effectively end Metro's ability to operate shuttle buses from stations to highly-traveled destinations. The new rules (PDF), which went into effect May 1, require public transit agencies to offer right of first refusal to private......

Photo by cstein96 Just a few days after Metro's board gave preliminary approval to the restructuring of the 30s bus lines, the Examiner has a story reporting that Metro General Manager John Catoe is now shifting his attention toward improving Metrobus service after spending his first year focusing mainly on Metrorail. Among Catoe's priorities for Metrobus: hiring more bus supervisors and giving them dispatcher authority that would allow them to make alterations to bus......

The Washington Business Journal tips us off to a new entrant in the discount bus service from D.C. to New York market. BoltBus, a division of Greyhound Lines Inc., began selling tickets tickets through its web site on Monday, and launches its service on March 27. There are a lot of options for cheap bus rides to New York, so what makes BoltBus different? It operates on the EasyJet principle, where tickets start out dirt......