There will be disruptions on the Orange, Silver, and Green lines due to maintenance projects
Jail support organizers report more than 20 people said they didn’t have air conditioning over the weekend.
Lots of power outages, tons of phone calls and a barrage of web traffic—the June 29 derecho storm in numbers, courtesy of a new Pepco report.
If you’re reading this from your office, a library or a coffee shop because you don’t have any power, do note that Pepco is currently estimating that you might have to wait a few more days until it comes back on.
Pepco officials expect to reestablish full service to most of the utility’s coverage area by Thursday morning. If you still do not have power by 3 p.m. today, call 1-877-PEPCO-62 for a better indication of when electricity in their area will be restored. (But hey, at least their outage map, in all its technicolor majesty, is back up and running!) Approximately 24,000 people are still without power in the District….
Photo by sally henny penny This is the one of the very few times I can recall that Metro has actually warned passengers ahead of time about major escalator outages at some of its stations, so it certainly merits its own headline. Here’s what the transit agency wants you to know: five station escalators are scheduled to be totally rebuilt starting this month, leaving them completely out of service for a solid 10 to…
