Photo by Tony Quinn

Good morning, Washington! What a day to be a Capitals fan, right? Earlier this week we noticed that Braden Holtby jerseys were flying off the racks; and we’ll be good money that today there will be a surge in demand for Joel Ward’s No. 42.

Switch Hitters: The derailment of a Blue Line train Tuesday night that caused no injuries but an evening’s worth of delayed commuting was likely caused by human error, Metro officials tell the Post. Two Metrorail employees are on paid leave pending an investigation, but early reports suggest that after the train’s operator noticed something faulty with a rail switch at the station as the train headed toward Franconia-Springfield, workers at Metro’s control center gave the go-ahead before they should have.

Red Is the Color of Green: On Tuesday, Mayor Vince Gray unveiled a sweeping plan to make D.C. more sustainable by 2032, including an increase in green jobs, cleaner rivers, new trails and 80 miles of bike lanes. But is it too audacious? There’s an argument to be made for that, WAMU reports, considering that in an $11 billion District budget, even tiny programs have trouble getting approval, such as Councilmember Tommy Wells’ (D-Ward 6) $50,000 “bike bait” program. “So there is not a lot of confidence, that if something this small can’t get done, that we can do the big stuff,” Wells told WAMU.

Our Temporary Future: D.C. is behind the national curve, the ongoing abundance of pop-up galleries and other temporary spaces is probably our future, the City Paper’s Lydia DePillis writes. Short-term retail and cultural projects can bring foot traffic to otherwise overlooked swaths of the city, which is the goal of, say, LUMEN8 Anacostia, which over the past two weekends brought thousands of visitors from west of the river to the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road SE. Eric Hilton has plans for temporary spaces on U Street, and a bar across from Nationals Park is built from nothing more than a stack of shipping containers which occupy the lot on a month-to-month basis. Still, it’s much harder to open a temporary place than a permanent one.

Briefly Noted: Denver man found dead in Petworth alley … Gas prices down a little, but still above $4 … $1 million Powerball ticket sold at Massachusetts Avenue NW gas station … O’Malley on a business trip to North Carolina and Nebraska.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Vincent Orange won a special election and returned to the D.C. Council. In 2010, The Washington Blade returned to publishing after a six-month disappearance.