After reopening a month or so ago after many months of rebuilding, the escalators at Union Station leading to the Red Line metrorail station are again out of service. How Now Brown Pau snapped this photo here, posted it in DCist Photos and voiced his frustrations. Wow, WMATA! You’re totally going for that world record for most escalator breakdowns at a single station, aren’t you? Go for it! You can do it! Reach for those…

WMATA has been tweaking its display boards at metrorail stations as of late. While not much has changed, the number of train cars per train will be displayed again, along with the destination, line color and minutes until arrival. When WMATA changed its display boards some months ago, some riders lamented the elimination of the number of train cars on the display boards. At some stations, knowing how many train cars a train will have…

We would be remiss to not mention yesterday’s anniversary of the January 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the Potomac River shortly after taking off from National Airport. Brown Pau has a post on Metafilter pointing us to a whole host of good links about the disaster, which claimed 78 lives on board and on the 14th Street Bridge, where the plane had crashed into gridlocked traffic before sinking into the icy Potomac….

On our way home from work, DCist took a quick stroll across the newly reopened Pennsylvania Avenue pedestrian precinct in front of the White House. While How Now, Brown Pau was underwhelmed with the results, we’re still digesting the revamped streetscaping. From How Now, Brown Pau: I had expected that the whole stretch of Penn Ave from 15th to 17th NW would be paved over with colored granite slabs, turning the street fronting the White…