Causing delays on the Orange, Silver, and Blue lines.

In late March construction will begin on connecting the existing streetcar tracks on H Street NE to turnarounds and termini.

Georgetown is getting new streetcar tracks. Except that they don’t go anywhere, but that’s the whole point.

A confused French tourist tried to get from one side of a Metro station to the other by walking across the tracks.

If it feels like Metro is being extra sluggish this afternoon, it’s because it really might be—orders were giving today for trains to travel no faster than 35 mph on above-ground segments if the tracks get too hot.

Every Metro line will experience delays due to track maintenance and repairs this weekend. Metro will be performing some big work on Saturday and Sunday, like welding, installing cross ties and performing upkeep on bridges and platforms — so be sure to check out this list before you head out. Metro recommends building in a 30 minute delay for travel on all lines starting this evening and ending at closing on Sunday.

We Love DC reports on some more people who leaped onto Metrorail tracks to help a person who had fallen off the platform. A man in a motorized wheelchair slipped onto the tracks at the Anacostia station last night — but four people quickly sprung into action and, with some help, managed to free him.

Around 10:30 a.m. this morning, a Red Line Metro train, heading in the direction of Shady Grove, was taken out of service after smoke was discovered on the tracks outside of the Brookland-CUA station. Those who were on the train were told that the train was out of service and that they had to leave the train — one person who left the train told DCist that the smoke smelled like “really bad burning rubber.”

Photo by bossa67 The District Department of Transportation is moving ahead with the installation of streetcar slabs and tracks along H Street NE, despite the fact that the streetcars themselves still have several planning hurdles to overcome before they’ll be cleared to start running. But the laying of tracks will cause two intersections on H Street to be temporarily closed this week. On Wednesday, August 26, the intersection of 4th and H Streets NE…

Houston Transit Authority volunteer Eliot Swainson, left, who came to the aid of a passenger who had fallen on the tracks this morning, gives directions to another Metro passenger. We reported this morning that a woman fell on the tracks on the Red Line to Glenmont at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station around 9:30 a.m. DCist has now learned that the woman narrowly avoided being struck by an oncoming train — largely due to…