The Silver Line is also out of service.

Photo by outlandk The National Transportation Safety Board will launch an investigation into Sunday’s early morning collision between two Metrorail trains at the West Falls Church rail yard, as the Washington Post reports this morning. Three Metro employees were injured, and a minimum of $9 million in damage – a total that is likely to rise – occurred as a result of the crash. As we noted at the end of the day yesterday…

Metro says that Orange Line service in the area around the West Falls Church-VT/UVA station has returned to normal. At 11:18 a.m. this morning, a man was killed in an apparent suicide by a six-car Orange Line train heading in the direction of New Carrollton. Trains were single tracking through the station until approximately 2 p.m., but WMATA says the incident has now been cleared….

WMATA has put out a release to remind everyone that the first in a series of six planned public hearings on the proposed Metro fare hike is tonight. All six hearings start at 7 p.m., with open-houses beginning at 6:30 p.m. before each one. Tonight’s hearing is in Reston, at the Bechtel Conference Center, which is at 1801 Alexander Bell Drive. To get there, take the Orange line to the West Falls Church station, and…

Like an oasis in a sea of high density development, the area around the East Falls Church metrorail station on the Orange Line features a landscape of single-family homes, parks, and low-rise commercial development. This puts the neighborhood in marked contrast to the high- and mid-rise corridor that runs from Rosslyn to Ballston and the new townhouse and condominium development springing up at West Falls Church, Dunn Loring and Vienna. As Arlington busily builds out…

They might not be chaining themselves to doors or laying across roadways, but certain Virginia residents have resorted to protest in response to a toll increase along the Dulles Toll Road in Loudoun County, Va. The toll, which increased by 25 cents yesterday, is being funneled toward paying for Virginia’s share of the $4 billion Dulles Rail Project, which seeks to extend Metrorail’s Orange line out to Dulles International Airport. Landowners Opposed to Wasteful Expenditures…

WMATA Plans Extra Rail Service for Saturday. There will be extra trains available before and after Saturday’s Wizards and Nationals games, WMATA has announced. Expect crowding in the evening because the Nats play at 7:05 p.m., with the Wizards playing at the MCI Center an hour later. And for the first time, WMATA will run shuttle buses from RFK (at Lot. No. 3) to Union Station following a Nats game … but only as…

WMATA is planning to hold their second-ever town hall meeting tomorrow, April 12, at George Mason High School in Falls Church from 6 to 9 p.m. The school is about one half-mile from the West Falls Church Metro and they say there’ll be WMATA employees on hand to point you in the right direction. Their first public town hall meeting drew an overflow crowd to Metro’s downtown headquarters. It’s not clear what (if any) concrete…

Martha’s Poncho Is Hot Stuff: Who knew that a fashion trend from West Virginia could send women everywhere searching for knitting patterns? But it’s true, says that Post, which details how Martha Stewart’s now-famous prison departure garb is inspiring those in the knitting world to re-create it. Kelly Ann Collins’ Socialiate Reporter notes on the fashion trend: I was glad when this look went out with those Free Winona t-shirts. But unfortunately, thanks to Ms….

In his budget delivered to Congress, President Bush has given an important endorsement of WMATA’s plan to build an extention through Tyson’s Corner. The agency that oversees such matters has given the rail line from the West Falls Church station to Wiehle Avenue in Fairfax County a “recommended” rating. Considering ridership projections and cost-effectiveness, as the Post reports, the rating makes the project “eligible for 50 percent federal funding.” But drivers of the Dulles Toll…