Crews are working to install a portable 750-ton cooling tower to bring temporary cooling by the end of June.

A person at the Farragut North station on Metro’s Red Line was killed after being struck by an oncoming train this morning, the transit agency said.

It’s official — after a blowout vote, the “virtual pedestrian tunnel” between the Farragut North and Farragut West Metro stations will now be christened as “Farragut Crossing”.

WMATA announced this morning that they’ve whittled down the crowd-sourced effort to rename the “pedestrian tunnel” to five possible names: “Free Transfer,” “Surface Transfer,” “Farragut Connect,” “Farragut Exchange” and “Farragut Crossing”.

This afternoon, WMATA General Manager/CEO Richard Sarles addressed his agency’s Board of Directors and announced specifics on several long-awaited initiatives, touting the transit agency’s “change in culture.”

UPDATE: Well, that sure was quick — Ben Giles, who reported out the Examiner story cited in this post, tweeted this morning that the mezzanine/platform escalator on the K Street side of the Farragut North station has reopened. Huzzah!

Are you tired of having to battle the crowds at Metro Center in order to transfer between the Red, Orange and Blue Lines? Soon enough, you’ll be able to hoof it, if you so choose: according to Kytja Weir, Metro is planning on installing a “virtual” pedestrian tunnel between Farraguts North and West this fall.

According to DCFireEMS and Metro’s Twitter feeds there was a body found on the tracks at Farragut North station. DCFireEMS’s twitter feed reports that there is “no rescue – PDOA – injuries incompatible with life” meaning the person is dead (PDOA stands for pronounced dead on arrival). Right now the Red line is single tracking from Dupont Circle to Gallery Place. We will continue to update this story as more news becomes available. UPDATE: As…

The Metrorail operator who was involved in the pocket track derailment at the Farragut North station on Feb. 12 has been fired, WMATA officials announced today. Metro declined to name the operator, but identified her as a woman who has been an employee with the transit agency since 1976, and a rail operator since April 1999. She was fired on March 11 “for failing to follow standard operating procedures,” according to a statement….

Photo by Rachael Brown A northbound Red Line train derailed near the Farragut North Metro station earlier this morning. No injuries have been reported thus far, but there’s a large emergency response outside the station, in the vicinity of 17th and K. The derailment happened at about 10:30 a.m. We’ll update with more details as we get them. The Farragut North Metro station has been closed. Metrorail will be single-tracking through the area for…