Happy Saturday, Washington. D.C. Department of Health officials found evidence of rats and threats of disease at Occupy D.C.’s McPherson Square encampment, the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board has fallen out of federal compliance, the wheels are literally coming off Metrorail, the Wizards are setting records, but not the kind their fans are hoping for, and other news of the day. more ›

Hey, a whole bunch of the city has the day off tomorrow! (Our regards to those who don't.) more ›

As more and more people in the District ride their bikes to work, there has been a small but growing move towards creating and installing creative and neighborhood-defining bike racks. more ›

Remember in February, when we opined that intercity bus operator Megabus would have been better off locating their new pickup and dropoff location a "little bit closer to the Metro"? Turns out we weren't the only ones who thought so. more ›

For 42 years, District residents and tourists have seen Tourmobile's signature blue and white buses drive circles around the National Mall. After today, the Tourmobile will be no more. more ›

For the first time since it launched six years ago, the D.C. Circulator will be crossing the Anacostia River and serving communities in wards 7 and 8. more ›

On this day last year, District officials launched Capital Bikeshare, an initiative premised on an elementary concept -- people sharing bikes. more ›

The Examiner's Kytja Weir reports today that six of Metro's top executives and 116 Metro employees have access to a pool of take-home vehicles, some of whom use them to get to and from work, others not. more ›

The American Automobile Association wants you to keep driving a car to work, to the grocery store, to church, to everywhere. So it's kind of a big deal when AAA actually recommends the use of any other kind of transportation. more ›

As promised, the District of Columbia released new guidelines for pedicab operators this morning, including regulations on seatbelt use, brakes and sober operation of said vehicles. more ›

If you want to live in the District's suburbs, your savings on housing costs are certain to be eaten up by significantly higher transportation costs -- so says a new report published today by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the D.C. Office of Planning. more ›

The subject of pedicabs was a hot one this weekend, after a pedicab driver was tased by a U.S. Park Police officer. That incident also sparked a wider discussion regarding the regulation of the vehicles -- today, Mayor Vince Gray announced that the District Department of Transportation would begin doing just that in the very near future. more ›

Despite public outrage with the reasoning, Council Chair Kwame Brown's decision to reassign Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) off the Council's Committee and Public Works and Transportation passed by a 12-1 vote this afternoon. Wells was the lone objector. more ›

In the wake of this morning's news that D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown plans to strip Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) of his chairmanship of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, questions are flying as to the wisdom of the move, the impact it may have and if Brown even has the votes to pull it off. more ›

Oooh, shiny: WMATA revealed renderings of its newest rail cars today. So dubbed the 7000 series, the 428 cars will be purchased at a cost of $886 million and are scheduled to roll out -- 300 to replace the system's oldest cars, the rest dedicated to the new Dulles extension -- sometime between 2013 and 2016. more ›

Even though the District is planning on charging car-sharing companies up to 25 times what it charges private residential drivers for curbside space, it doesn't appear to be dissuading companies from bidding for it. more ›

After a commercial tour bus flipped over on Interstate 95 in Virginia yesterday morning, killing four people and injuring dozens more, WAMU decided that they'd take a trip down to Chinatown to ask about safety on the buses which operate from there. The result is hardly assuring. more ›

UPDATE: (1:50 p.m.) Mayor Vince Gray, as previously reported, named Terry Bellamy permanent DDOT director a few minutes ago. "We are the incubator of the world," Bellamy said upon his introduction. "Everyone comes to D.C. to see what we are doing." Bellamy also called the job a "once in a lifetime opportunity." more ›

Ah, Chinatown buses: chariots of the frugal, the thrifty, the person looking for the cheapest possible way to get up and down the Eastern Seaboard. It's almost a rite of passage to take at least one spin on the various bus lines which originate from and stop in the District -- and even with the ascent of corporate-backed, low-cost, modern-amenity lines like BoltBus and Megabus, people are still scraping out a Jackson to get to New York on the fly. But while more competition might not have sunk the dirt-cheap bus business, a new District law just might. more ›

Those who use public transportation for incredibly long commutes on a daily basis will no doubt be able to verify the findings of a new report by the Brookings Institution on transit in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. The report reveals that a majority of the Washington metropolitan statistical area's jobs are not located within a 90-minute radius of Metro and other regional transit systems. more ›

Earlier this month, we wondered whether Capital Bikeshare would have the capacity to handle a thousands of riders who took advantage of a deal offering a year-long membership for half-price. District Department of Transportation spokesperson John Lisle wasn't too worried about it at the time, though, telling DCist that DDOT had "a plan to expand the system to help meet that demand" which included new stations in Arlington and D.C., some of which would "be installed before the end of the month." He wasn't kidding -- during a press conference this morning, Mayor Vince Gray and transportation officials announced plans to install for several new stations around the District, including one located right in front of city hall. more ›

Obviously, former District Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein was doing something right -- today, Transportation Nation is reporting that he has been chosen by new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to run the Windy City's Department of Transportation. Klein, who left the D.C. government in early December during a sea change in agency leadership after Mayor Vince Gray defeated Adrian Fenty for the city's mayoralty, will reportedly start next month. more ›

Tomorrow morning, the WMATA board’s Finance and Administration Committee will review a plan to significantly widen the intervals between Metrorail trains on weekends in order to close a $72 million budget gap without raising fares. more ›

Don't forget: Metro will be closing five Orange Line stations and cutting off Blue Line service between Stadium-Armory and Benning Road beginning at 10 p.m. tonight. If you usually take either line to get between the District and Prince George's County, be sure to head out early tonight -- if you don't, you'll probably be stuck waiting for a Metro shuttle bus to come around. more ›

The D.C. Council's Committee on Public Works and Transportation is talking taxis this afternoon. The big news so far? D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairperson Leon Swain told Committee Chair Tommy Wells that Mayor Vince Gray instructed him to repeal the $19 cap on cab rides inside the District. So should you start carrying around a bit more cash when you're planning on taking a cab across town? We wouldn't worry too much: such a repeal would be subject to approval during a full meeting of the notoriously broken Commission -- an gathering that hasn't occurred in quite some time. (UPDATE: Wells' Chief of Staff Charles Allen informs us that the last full meeting of the Commission was actually held in October, but they are supposed to meet every two months, which is obviously not happening.) A Jackson should do you, at least until the Commission gets its act together -- and who knows when that will be? more ›

With the District getting closer and closer to again featuring streetcars as an operational part of the city's transportation network, other areas slated to take part in the streetcar renaissance are getting anxious about what they're supposed to do in the meantime to keep the momentum going. more ›

While we're on the subject of transportation for drunk people, here's some interesting testimony from Ilmar Paegle, the man who was, until recently, in charge of overseeing the accuracy of breathalyzers used by the District's police. According to a WTTG report, Paegle claims that "hundreds of people have gone to jail based on faulty information that went undetected for years." Yeah, that sounds bad. In coordination with the D.C. Attorney General, the police department has now ditched the faulty breath analysis technology until a reliable analyzer can be found; in the interim, police will have suspected drunk drivers give urine samples when they are pulled over. You know, when you drink, Metro is a good alternative to driv...oh wait, never mind. more ›