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…

Perusing the Metro news this week, another poll suggesting that Northern Virginians might want to just cut themselves off from the rest of the state got us all excited. But we got a little bummed when we found out that Virginia’s Great Tunnel Debate would end up pushing back the timeline of the Dulles Metro extension quite a bit. The possibility that Maryland might begin the Great Tunnel Debate 2.0 depressed us even more….

This week the transit world has been peppered with tidbits on trains, buses, cheap bastard Northern Virginians that will ruin Metro for us and should be voted out of office as soon as possible (phew!) and abandoned children….

In what may be one of the most long-awaited incidents of comeuppance, towing companies around the country are set to face closer oversight of their operations under an amendment to a House of Representatives transportation bill that now faces a vote in the Senate, the W.Times reports. Sponsored by Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) and Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.), the amendment reinstates federal oversight that was eliminated in 1995, allowing, among other things, states to require…