• Tag Archives: DC Metro

    TN MOVING STORIES: DC’s Proposed Airport Metro Rail Station Under Fire, San Francisco’s Central Subway Moves Closer to Reality

    The airports authority in charge of building the Metro rail extension to Dulles International Airport is considering eliminating the Metro station at the airport. Canada...

    TN MOVING STORIES: Beijing Bike Scheme, Florida Traffic Deaths Drop, Airlines Sue DOT Over Advertising Rules

    Beijing will open four new subway lines and put 20,000 rental bikes on the street — this year. Parts of Nigeria are under a curfew...

    TN MOVING STORIES: BART Extension To Silicon Valley Clears Hurdle, Edmonton Transit Riders to be Scanned for Explosives

    The deal to extend BART to Silicon Valley is finally clearing its last major hurdle after a six-decade struggle — and is likely to win...

    TN MOVING STORIES: Transit Fare Affects School Attendance in Chicago, Singapore’s Subway Snarl

    Two legislators from New York and New Jersey have introduced a bill that would put the Port Authority under federal oversight. Cuomo’s approach to the...

    TN MOVING STORIES: LA Residents Want Transit Prioritized; Shorter Station Names Coming to DC Metro; NYC “Taxi Summit” Happening Today

    A new poll says LA residents want transit prioritized, not roads. The TSA will conduct another study on the safety of its X-ray body scanners....

    TN MOVING STORIES: Occupy Oakland Shuts Down Port, A Look At East Side Access, and Moscow’s Subway: Best In the World?

    Demonstrators shut down Oakland’s port. A New York City Council committee voted in favor of residential parking permits. The Department of Defense will try to...

    Long-Awaited DC Metro Audit Will Be Released By GAO Thursday

    A long-anticipated federal audit of Metro will be released to the public Thursday, according to a spokesman at the Government Accountability Office. We’ve reported on...

    A New Transit Problem: Excessively Wordy Train Station Names

    (Washington D.C. – David Schultz, WAMU) Metro, the public transit agency here in D.C., is facing a problem familiar to Twitter users everywhere: it needs...

    TN Moving Stories: DC Metro to Shorten Station Names, and House GOP Wants To Privatize the Northeast Corridor

    Listeners have been texting the price of gas at the pump to The Takeaway. Today, TN’s Andrea Bernstein discusses those findings.  (The Takeaway) While exiting...

    DC’s Metro Unveils New In-Train Signs

    (Washington D.C. – David Schultz, WAMU) In a few years, Metro will be getting a crop of all new trains. And this morning, it unveiled...