The FTA ordered WMATA to complete 47 actions.
The federal workers had to “jump out of harm’s way” near Ronald Reagan Airport station on Thursday.
Metro had 68 red light signal overruns between January 2012 and July 31, 2016.
After the U.S. transportation secretary threatened to withhold millions if they didn’t get a move on creating an independent commission.
The Federal Transit Administration has identified 229 defects on Metrorail “requiring 66 remedial actions.”
More than a year after Hurricane Sandy, the federal government is making approximately $3 billion available to affected transit systems to strengthen their resiliency.
The relationship between the District and the Federal Transit Administration might be at a low point, but things in suburban Maryland couldn’t be rosier.
In case you missed it, the Dulles Rail project, aka the Silver line, finally got official approval from the Federal Transit Administration for the first phase of the project yesterday. The approval allocated $5.2 billion for the Falls Church to Wiehle Avenue section of the line, while the extension to Dulles itself will come in the second phase. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and the Office of Management and Budget still need to sign…
After some much needed R&R (that’s rest and relaxation, not roads and rails), Transit on Thursday returns to Washington only to find that all hell has broken loose on Metro. The Sliver Line extension to Dulles, looking good when we left, is turning into a first rate debacle, and clouds of smoke seem to be drifting though the tunnels on just about every line. We can’t turn our backs for even a few seconds, can…
Today tens of thousands of District children return to school, leaving behind the late-morning starts, extended curfews and breaks at the public swimming pool that summer afforded them. And though the year will proceed as it usually does, they will be part of a school system that has seen drastic changes over the last few months. Now under mayoral control and led by new chancellor Michelle Rhee, the District’s public schools have entered a new…
