By Adam Pagnucco. In Part One, I summarized how I asked my sources to help me construct a list of important events in county history since the 1960s. Part Two…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County’s delegation of state legislators has come out swinging against a proposal by WMATA to reinstate turnbacks on the Red Line. The turnbacks, which terminated some…
The Post conducted a new poll of local residents and noted their generally high marks for Metro. But we see a bigger message here: Washington’s Metrorail system is still popular…
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, which represents WMATA employees, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to enforce an arbitrator’s decision granting pay increases to its members. WMATA is crying…
WMATA Bus Driver Spared from Discipline
The Baltimore Sun’s Mike Dresser reports that the WMATA bus driver accused of violating the agency’s cell phone policy has escaped discipline. WTOP confirmed our story on the driver’s innocence,…
WTOP Confirms MPW WMATA Story
WTOP is now confirming what our source told us about the WMATA bus driver cell-phone incident: she was not making a personal call, but was trying to contact management about…
Big-Time Interest in WMATA Management Story
Right now, 54% of our traffic consists of direct entries to our story about WMATA management’s cracking under pressure. Most of the visits are coming from the King of all…
Is WMATA Management Starting to Crack?
In the aftermath of the June 22 Red Line accident, WMATA is an understandably tense organization these days. But a recent event gives insight into the growing strains inside the…
Metro Operator Caught Sleeping
This video is rapidly acquiring cult status. For more details, look here.
Summer Reading List
By Marc Korman. Find yourself with some free time this summer? Taking a vacation? Waiting in METRO due to delays with nothing to do? Let me recommend The Great Society…