From August 5-20. Plus, Medical Center and Bethesda stations will shutter again this weekend.

A happy Friday to you, Washington. Hopefully you all made it in to work on time despite Metro having reduced the speed of their rail cars in several areas this morning. Speed restrictions were in place until 8:10 a.m. along portions of the Orange line in Maryland and Virginia, the Red line from Union Station to Silver Spring and from Shady Grove to Grosvenor, and the Green line from Branch Avenue to Congress Heights…

Good morning, Washington. We hope you had a relaxing weekend, and weren’t one of the people inconvenienced by the brief closing of a number of Metro stations on Sunday. The story goes that a contractor mistakenly spread commercial-grade rat poisoning in the middle of the day around several stations in D.C. and Maryland. When dozens of birds started dropping dead at the Greenbelt, Anacostia, Naylor Road and Branch Avenue stations on the Green line…

Hey Green line riders, are you by any chance just getting in to work right now? Yeah, we’re sorry to hear that, but there have been major Green line delays since 7 a.m. this morning, when a six-car train stalled and broke down on the inbound track near West Hyattsville. To make matters worse, a second train sent in to push the broken one down the track also lost power, shutting down the tracks entirely…

Home is a pretty subjective concept. Where you hang your hat? The place you can always go back to? Where your love lies waiting silently for you? But what about where you spend the largest part of your waking hours? We may like to keep a firm separation between office life and “home” life, but let’s look at the facts: who do you spend more hours awake and in the same room with than that…

We’ve discussed neighborhood naming on this site in the past; hokey sounding appelations are fine if they have some historical roots, it seems, but blatant attempts to ape famous hoods in other towns are to be scorned. Mercilessly. But the message has not been gotten in Prince George’s County, home also to the Disneyscape rising at the planned National Harbor. According to the Washington Business Journal, Wood Partners, a Vienna based development company, are constructing…

We all know the Orange Line is crowded. We all hear the many complaints from Virginia commuters about inching beneath the Potomac River between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom. The Post explains why the Orange Line is getting more crowded and can’t handle more trains. And it will get worse, regardless if and when a metrorail spur is built from West Falls Church to Tyson’s Corner (and eventually to Dulles International Airport.) The problem is simple….

This week’s Animal Watch is filled with many reports of neglected dogs, or dogs just getting into trouble. A Presa Canario bit his owner at a park on Branch Avenue SE … a dog owner was charged with cruelty to animals when a necropsy report revealed that a dog found dead chained to a pole on Ascot Place NE died of heat stroke … three pit bulls that prevented an Aspen Street NW home owner…

The National Harbor Project, a $2-billion development planned for south of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac from Alexandria, has received final funding to go ahead with construction. The development will include condos, upscale shopping, and a 1,500-room Gaylord Hotel. In the FAQ, the developers are coy about whether “National Harbor have a Metro stop?”:Metro follows development and the National Harbor project has the density and smart growth design that appeals to Metro planners….