I’m coming out of semi-retirement to write about a year of WMATA’s Better Bus for the 51st State - tell them what you think! docs.google.com/forms/d/1fda...

I started working on this look at speed camera data months before the Post layoffs but holidays, snowstorms, etc. got in the way -- I'm glad we were able to finish it. I'll have one more soon w/John Harden, looking at crash data around schools. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

From an unofficial DDOT source, this starts Monday. Great timing for cherry blossom crowds.

Here’s the report www.scribd.com/document/101... Finds that congestion pricing could substantially increase transit use, raise revenues, reduce traffic. But the Congress and Trump admin would likely make it impossible.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

23 y.o. killed crossing the street in a crosswalk with a walk signal by a driver turning left. 5:34 p.m. on a Monday in downtown Richmond. Absolutely devastating and infuriating.

WABA relaying something I also heard this past week (and that, if it happened two weeks ago, I would have tried to report out for the Post): USDOT wants to remove a chunk of the 15th Street NW bike lane where it crosses the National Mall waba.org/2026/02/13/f...

Many are rightly noting that clicks alone is a terrible way to make coverage decisions. But it’s also just not true these cuts reflect reader interest. Some of the Post’s most popular writers were cut. The most read stories this week were written, edited and designed by people who lost their jobs.

Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

I find it difficult to celebrate almost anyone losing their job. Almost.

Scenes outside of the Washington Post headquarters right now:

Same!

Seems like this will be my last story for the Washington Post. A handful of my colleagues will still be covering local news in the DMV and I know they’ll do great work, but they and this region deserve so much better.

A thorough investigation into grift at a group paid by the D.C. government to violence interruption -- the kind of local accountability reporting we may not be able to do much longer www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

D.C. area has just emerged from its longest uninterrupted stretch of freezing weather in more than 35 years. Even as temps thaw a bit today, another punishing blast of cold is poised to arrive by the weekend. Read the full story: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Buried at the end of this, citing sources, is the FHA is "gathering information on [DC]’s bike lanes and whether they took space away from cars and caused congestion." Ugh. #bikedc

Trump administration limiting use of federal funds for speed cameras, calling them "unfair revenue schemes.” www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

How is this a scoop? He says this all the time

This is where my bus got stuck yesterday

Well, I guess that explains why the snow detour is up Sherman... 😹 bsky.app/profile/swid...

Metro the past two days has been great. Unfortunately I decided to take the bus home and now my D44 is stuck in a snow bank at 11th and Florida. We are rocking back and forth and the lights are flickering.

Metro the past two days has been great. Unfortunately I decided to take the bus home and now my D44 is stuck in a snow bank at 11th and Florida. We are rocking back and forth and the lights are flickering.

Randy Clarke says Metro has moved close to a million people on rail + bus since the storm started, including 60K during it on Sunday: "When everything else can't move, we still move people." (Also: "This is arguably the heaviest and hardest snow I've ever felt in my life and I grew up in Canada.")

Streets and sidewalks mostly cleared downtown. Exception is of course National Park land (Samuel Gompers Memorial) which has not been touched

Update: 🚇 Rail resumes weekday service at 5 a.m. with trains every 6–12 mins 🚌 Bus resumes weekday service — all 126 routes operating (61 regular service, 65 on snow detours) 🚐 Metro Access operating all scheduled trips Check wmata.com/snow before traveling.

Yesterday, a van of 4-5 DPW employees showed up here on E St SE. They got out and started shoveling the alley entrance, which was great. However, this is how they left the intersection and the access to the sidewalks. I really wish I better understood the city’s strategy with snow.

An administrative judge reversed the termination of an MPD officer for an off-duty DUI in his cruiser with the emergency lights activated -- in part because other officers had engaged in similar conduct and were just suspended washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7781...

We're near the scheduled end of the NTSB hearing on their findings on the DCA crash, and until now everyone seemed to be on the same page -- but now there's a bitter argument between Chair Jennifer Homendy and board members over last-minute tweaks to the report.

#SaveThePost, Jeff Bezos.

My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

It has never been more important to understand what is happening in our world, and @washingtonpost.com's foreign reporters regularly sacrifice their own wellbeing and safety to bring us those vital stories. I'm so proud to share a newsroom with them. We need them more than ever. #SavethePost

The average D.C. commute is no longer or shorter than it was before the pandemic. DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum notes that the city has added far more bike lanes (and some bus lanes) since then, calls it a "misperception" that they slow traffic down. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

A robo-bus brought to D.C. by USDOT had a true local experience: getting hit from behind on H Street by a Tesla driver with Maryland plates www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

EXCLUSIVE: We vetted RFK Jr.'s latest picks for a federal vaccine advisory panel. One explicitly called herself an anti-vaxxer, the other compared vaccine makers to cigarette manufacturers. “My grandchildren will not get any shots if I can help it" @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4pFHsEe

At annual Transportation Research Board meeting, USDOT Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Loren Smith says that if his office had a bumper sticker it might be “Brutalism sucks, classical architecture rules”

Baltimore Metro is now using a signaling system more advanced than the one in D.C.

D.C. leaders think they can convince U.S. DOT not to ban traffic cameras, which would take hundreds of millions dollars out of the city's budget and upend its traffic safety strategy www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Traffic deaths are declining around the DMV — but they’re back to where they were a decade ago when Vision Zero commitments started www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The longtime director of the Valentine in Richmond, known for working to dispel "Lost Cause" myths, was hit by a car and killed on his way home from the museum. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.

Nick Donohue, Virginia’s transpo secretary nominee, has worked on “many of the state’s recent major transpo initiatives, from the plan to increase pax rail service to the Smart Scale transpo funding policy that has been widely praised for taking politics out of the allocation of transpo dollars.”

The Metrobus "system is short 120 drivers, and on average, 241 trips — about 2.7 percent of all trips — were missed each month in 2025." #washingtondc via @rachelweiner.bsky.social

I genuinely feel for @wmata.com on this. Appreciate the transparency, appreciate the challenges they face, appreciate the steps they are taking to try to fix it. wapo.st/4p8HrYS 🎁

Tying DOT funding to immigration policy has been blocked in court subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Behind WMATA saying buses keep getting canceled due to "operator availability" www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

"Facility planning has lagged behind its fleet planning by about 15 years even though the two efforts are closely interconnected." !!! And the result is more delays to the Acela IIs, sigh. h/t @airlineflyer.net

New Inspector General report says Amtrak hasn't been upgrading maintenance facilities at the same pace as it has been putting out new trains, limiting the utility of the new fleet: amtrakoig.gov/audit-docume...

We're coming up on a year from this tragedy. Excellent data reporting from the Post.

Interesting as WMATA tries to move towards platform screen doors

Metro Rewind keeps getting more elaborate — this year you can get a t-shirt based on your ridership history