Over the past week, we’ve had a couple of readers telling us that taxis around town had been altering notices for the in-place $1 fuel surcharge, replacing the July 26 end date with November 12. A case of rogue cabbies? Nope, it’s above-board.

Image from GGW Greater Greater Washington reports that DDOT has at last installed “quick curbs” at one corner of the intersection of 15th and W Streets NW, where a pedestrian was killed in May. The intersection is famously dangerous and confusing for pedestrians and drivers alike, as it also meets Florida Ave. in a jumble of diverging one-way traffic patterns. The “quick curbs” are plastic markers designed to steer traffic farther away from pedestrians….

Photo by Sanjay Suchak Metro posted its track maintenance reminder this morning, and it looks like Orange and Red Line riders will bear the brunt of delays this weekend. Orange Line: Rail, crosstie and track support replacement work between the Stadium-Armory and Cheverly stations will create 30 minute delays on the Orange line this weekend. Additional bridge maintenance work on the aerial structure outside the Minnesota Avenue station will also contribute to delays. Trains…

Do you have trouble getting a seat on Metro in the morning? On Monday, that could get at least a little bit easier. Regular Red and Green line passengers will find additional eight-car trains running during peak hours, thanks to the 20 additional rail cars Metro plans to put into service next week.

Photo by james1428 Metro’s latest weekend track work schedule, which covers the month of April, is now up on their web site. What sorts of delay-tastic shenanigans are in store for us in the coming month? We’ve posted the basics below. April 4-5, and April 11-12: No work planned, thanks to the crowds expected for the National Cherry Blossom festival superseding Metro’s need to do maintenance work. Enjoy the reprieve while it lasts, because…

There were long delays, petition drives, and some final technical hiccups, but WMATA has finally released its schedule data in the Google Transit Feed Specification format. What does that mean? Well, most obviously it means that Google Transit will soon be adding D.C. to its list of supported cities (UPDATE: or perhaps not — see below for a comment from Michael Perkins of GGW, who explains that there are lingering complications surrounding WMATA’s legal…

Photo by fritzheier We’ve been pestering DDOT for more details on the two new Circulator routes the city has planned, one that would travel through Adams Morgan, Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, U Street and McPherson Square, replacing the 25 cent 98 bus that used to go between U Street and Adams Morgan, and another that would run from Union Station, through Barracks Row to Nationals Park, replacing the N22 bus. Last week, the Washington…

Photo by sally henny penny We warned you about this at the beginning of the month, but it’s a good time to remind you that the Green and Yellow lines are going to be a big mess this weekend thanks to switch replacement work at the Mount Vernon Sq-7th St Convention Center station. Starting tonight at 10 p.m. and lasting through Sunday, March 15 at midnight, riders should expect 30-minute delays while trains single…

Photo by katieharbath Metro released its March track maintenance schedule earlier this week, with some big delays to take note of this coming weekend and beyond. Friday, March 6, to Sunday, March 8 Orange Line: Crosstie and track support replacement work between the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU and West Falls Church-VT/UVA stations will create 30 minute delays between 8 p.m., Friday, March 6, to closing (midnight), on Sunday, March 8. While the work is going on, every…

Photo by Nivad WMATA put out a press release this afternoon announcing that Metro’s board has finally given the go ahead on a plan to build a new network that will allow companies besides Verizon to offer cell phone access in stations and tunnels. A contract has been awarded that will allow Verizon, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile to build a new wireless network inside the Metro system over the next four years, which…