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

At hearing on Commanders stadium, DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum says she wants "the most transit-friendly stadium in the country"; for that Metro GM Randy Clarke says we need bus-rapid-transit lines from Union Station and Rosslyn to Benning Road or everyone will get stuck on the B/O/S lines.

.@purplelinemd.bsky.social testing is underway at night between New Carrollton and College Park. Unfortunately, opening of the circumferential light rail line through DC's Maryland suburbs is (at least) still 2 years away. via @rachelweiner.bsky.social

New Yorkers are getting more packages than ever - 80% of households get at least one delivery per week, and 20% get FOUR or more. That's a lot of packages, and a lot of trucks. The DOT's new report gives a good picture of where the city is at, but wasn't the "redesign" advocates hoped for.

Not even a year after the DCA crash, new legislation would allow even more military aircraft to fly with ADS–B turned off. Here in central DC, I'm seeing an *increase* in flights w/o ADS–B Out—Air Force, Coast Guard, and especially the Army unit that caused January's disaster. wapo.st/4pylxzv

Interesting: Urbanist group @ggwash.org is suing @ddotdc.bsky.social over its refusal/failure to release a study the city conducted on congestion pricing possibilities in downtown D.C. The study was finished in 2020, but has never been made public – even in response to FOIA requests.

Will be interesting to see how this goes over. Virginia Republicans prodding Moore administration to expand the ALB with privately managed tolled express lanes did not get very far, and supporters have been hoping the Democratic Spanberger administration will be more persuasive.

DDOT has changed the design plan for the protected bike lanes on Kansas Ave NW (which have already been under construction) to eliminate the structural protection, and add more paint. app.box.com/s/3947xbs2yc...

In New York City, where Vision Zero has been backed by real resources and serious policy changes (speed cameras, congestion pricing) made possible in part by the work of Families for Safe Streets -- it IS working. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Jonathan Hale, whose “People’s Vision Zero” group does citizen crosswalk striping in LA, was detained and cited for vandalism today by LAPD. PVZ tells the city government who they are and where they’re planning to add a crosswalk. Say they’ll stop if the mayor’s office condemns it or steps in.

This project took me away from local coverage for a bit but I'm very glad we did it -- a story about the political and legal limitations that have kept the Vision Zero movement in the U.S. from succeeding, and the subsequent death of a young woman on a road known to be unsafe wapo.st/49WM4BI