Photo by tvol UPDATE: Well, good news, Metro says service on the Red Line has already returned to normal. Still, keep an eye out for residual delays. Red Line riders, make your happy hour plans now, because it’s looking likely you’re going to have an annoying time getting home tonight. WMATA is warning of major delays on the Red Line this afternoon thanks to the combination of an “arcing insulator” near the Dupont Circle…

We’re now into day two of the NTSB’s public hearing on the deadly June 22 Red Line crash (you can watch the hearing live online), and while the safety board has yet to release its formal conclusions on the cause of the accident, hundreds of pages of documents released to the public on Tuesday provide details on their findings. Investigators found that several days before the crash, a work order (above) was issued to repair…

Photo by cacophony76 Ongoing track circuit repairs on the Red Line and scheduled maintenance on the Blue, Orange and Yellow Lines this weekend will lead to delays across the Metrorail system. Here’s the details: Red Line: Once again this weekend, there will be no Red Line trains serving the Fort Totten station. Post-Red Line Crash track circuit repairs will force Red Line trains to operate only between Shady Grove and Brookland-CUA and between Glenmont…

The larger Examiner enterprise may be pushing its online platform hot and heavy, but the local D.C. Examiner newspaper’s ability to integrate its stories on the web still leaves a whole lot to be desired. Take this story from this morning, with the headline: “Metro builds Web site about faulty track circuits.” You might expect to click through to the story and find contained therein the url, and maybe even (don’t get too radical…

The National Transportation Safety Board has put up a second advisory today on its web site regarding the most recent findings of its investigation of the June 22 Red Line crash. In it, we learn for the first time that the train control system track circuit where the accident occurred — the same one that investigators initially found to be not functioning properly after testing it during the first couple of days after the…