Plans to have all D.C. taxicabs accept credit cards by the end of March have been pushed back by a few weeks.

A panel of D.C. judges overturned a $35 million contract that would bring smart meters to the city’s 6,500 cabs, meaning that paying with a credit card might still be a few months off.

The inability to pay fares with credit cards has long been a complaint of many riders of D.C.’s taxicabs, but that option may become available as soon as the end of the year.

It looks like a long-running federal investigation into D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown is bearing fruit—according to the Post, he’s expected to be indicted as early as today for fraud.

Photo by cstein96 A former employee of the Cheesecake Factory on Wisconsin Ave. has been charged with facilitating a fraud ring that led to $117,000 worth of bogus charges on the credit cards of diners, Freeman Klopott reports in the Sunday Examiner. Nicole Ward was arrested and charged with bank fraud last week after two of her fellow servers told prosecutors that Ward had recruited them to be a part of a credit card…

You can already pay for parking in some parts of D.C. via solar-powered credit card meters, and starting Monday, another pilot program launched by the District Department of Transportation will allow drivers to pay for parking by phone. The pay by phone option is being offered at 700 parking spaces in three areas of the city: around Dupont Circle, Union Station, and downtown on K Street, I Street, and New York Avenue NW. Meters…

WTOP passes along a breathless quote from board member Peter Benjamin, which seems to indicate that riders will be able to scan credit cards at fare gates instead of taking the extra step to use a card to refill a SmarTrip or paper farecard. Or perhaps you’ll be able to connect a credit card to your SmarTrip, which will automatically debit your card for your trip. For a feature which will be available in “within…