The rush to get out of D.C. to family Thanksgiving celebrations has already begun, but if you’re still reading DCist, you’re probably still at work and planning on leaving within the next 72 hours. Whether opening up that military airspace will really make a difference at Washington area airports remains to be seen, but WMATA has announced a special Thanksgiving weekend schedule that could stand to help out many of you trying to take public…

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…

Commenter Nate asked if we would look into what’s been happening on the Red line lately, which he describes as having been suffering from “morning and/or afternoon delays every day for nearly two weeks now.” Indeed, we’ve heard others grumbling about the Red line of late, which is usually one of Metro’s speediest rush hour options. WMATA explains that the current Red line delays are due to ongoing work needed to replace pieces of…

This week on Transit on Thursday, good news from DDOT for people who don’t like getting hit by cars, and Metro plans on fixin’ some things that really need fixin’. Score One For Pedestrians: We will soon get to say farewell to annoying sidewalk closures caused by those greedy development projects. No more braving the fury of cars as we find a way around. And no more crossing to the other side. Builders will…

Anyone who has been in this town for more than a few hours knows that the feeding frenzy resulting from federal spending bills outdoes just about anything you’ve seen on the Discovery Channel. Well, it’s check cuttin’ time in D.C., and the District, Virginia, and Maryland are each getting a slice of the pie. Apparently, the region’s planners did not read last Tuesday’s DCist transportation column, because most of the money is going to the…

Perusing the Metro news this week, another poll suggesting that Northern Virginians might want to just cut themselves off from the rest of the state got us all excited. But we got a little bummed when we found out that Virginia’s Great Tunnel Debate would end up pushing back the timeline of the Dulles Metro extension quite a bit. The possibility that Maryland might begin the Great Tunnel Debate 2.0 depressed us even more….

Today Curbed clued us into the many rivalries that exist in New York City, from the basic Manhattan vs. Brooklyn to the L train vs. the F train. This got us to thinking — what rivalries exist in the Washington area? What really provokes heated debates? What, when mentioned on DCist, yields a flood of comments both pro and con? Today we present some of the basic rivalries that keep things interesting. Of course, this…

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…

Photo from the archives of Drew McDermott OK, you may be getting sick and tired of DCist writing about transit. Please blame Jo Becker and Lyndsey Layton and their cohorts at the Post for bringing into the public record so much great information about the ailments of the region’s transit system — ailments we’ve been looking at in one way or another since DCist launched last summer. Today, the Post’s in-depth series comes to…

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…