WMATA trying to lure suburban bus agencies onto a single fare payment system (and, as part of that, charging fares again after several went fare-free). Ideal would include Capital Bikeshare and even tolls www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yj8...

New 8000 series Metro trains unveiled at Hitachi factory in Hagerstown, with the design chosen less than two weeks ago

A new study in DC shows that simply warning drivers they are at high risk of a crash doesn’t change behaviour, via @rachelweiner.bsky.social

At launch of new Acela, Alstrom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge calls it “the most advanced train in the world today” due to the combination of speed and tilting technology. Train nerds, any thoughts?

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Unsurprisingly the third of these options was the favorite design for the Metro 8K series trains among the 20,000 people who voted. Was most popular with our readers as well.

If you see federal law enforcement with their faces covered at Metro/bus stations, that is against protocol. GM Randy Clarke said at MetroFest Saturday that he asked for no face coverings and got “no pushback.”

“Zairean Wills, 15, woke up at 6 a.m. for her first day as a sophomore at Roxborough High School, and hour earlier than she planned to wake up before the cuts.” — www.inquirer.com/transportati...

The Guardsman who was behind the wheel of the MATV has now been ticketed for running a red light

"How We Mapped Nightmare Commutes on NJ Transit" -- www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Crash early this a.m. on Capitol Hill involved a 14-ton D.C. National Guard Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV) and is "currently undergoing an investigation," Capt. Tinashe T. Machona says. Civilian driver hospitalized with head laceration per @danlamothe.bsky.social

London's mayor in the @theguardian.com: "The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75% (from four to one)."

Metro says that while feds are being assigned to work with Metro Transit Police Department, "Task force officers are not making arrests or writing fare evasion citations ... MTPD remains the responsible agency regarding enforcement actions, which include writing citations and/or making arrests."

Unidentified federal officers were doing fare enforcement at 7th and H Street NW last night, per my colleague Jonathan Edwards:

All Metro saying about federal presence in stations: "Federal Law enforcement and National Guard troops are assisting MTPD officers to enhance safety and security efforts at DC stations and bus terminals. We appreciate their support and encourage customers to report suspicious behavior"

Thousands of machinists who build fighter jets and munitions at Boeing’s defense hub went on strike at midnight Monday for the first time since the mid-1990s.

No high-speed maglev train is coming between D.C. and New York. On this one, Dems and Trump administration agree www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Wednesday through Friday the NTSB is grilling Army and FAA officials on what went wrong in the deadly Jan. 29 collision at DCA. I profiled Tim Lilley, a pilot who has flown both the commercial and helicopter routes at National -- and lost his son in the crash. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

MoCo is touting a bus stop that now has a place to wait for the bus, which is great ... except there's still no crosswalk or sidewalk to get to and from the stop www.reddit.com/r/Montgomery...

California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.

Très cool, ça! #Montreal 's always improving #bikeshare service introduces the Bixi Remorque (Trailer), for carrying large loads. It's just $4 for 4 hours ($8 for non-members). You can find the location of 50 trailers on the app. bixi.com/en/trailer?u...

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

Bus driver announcing that the D40 is “just like the 70 bus in days of old”

Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, South Florida’s NPR member station, has found. Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

Maryland breaking ground on first state “Pedestrian Safety Action Plan” project on MD-650, where 45 pedestrians were injured and 8 killed between 2018 and 2020 — eliminating slip lanes, adding lighting and raised crosswalks, slowing merge off Beltway.

Was excited to take the new D74 from Petworth to the Dupont farmers market. Unfortunately …

The US court system relies on public transportation www.cityandstatepa.com/opinion/2025...

Not comforting when your entire bus is lit up by lightning just as a tornado warning goes off on everyone’s phones

Paul Wiedefeld, former WMATA head who has been leadign Maryland's Department of Transportation, is leaving; Lt. Gov says they will do a "nationwide search" for "a leader ready to meet the urgent needs of our transportation systems."

My contribution to this discourse as an urban historian is there is ample precedent for transit agencies being hamstrung by politicization of unusually low fares. The nickel subway fare was a political third rail forever. I wrote about it with MARTA’s ten cent bus fare in the ‘70s.

"Interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III directed his staff to remove the Times Union and its [staff] from his office’s media distribution list after the newspaper published a story last month about him listing a boarded-up residence in Albany as his address." -- www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

Capital Bikeshare is coming to Vienna with four stops, closing this gap (although density is still low out there) www.viennava.gov/files/d58750...

We’re monitoring severe thunderstorms storms this evening. Plan extra travel time as fallen debris and flash flooding could impact service. Stay in the loop on any disruptions by following @metrorailinfo.bsky.social and @metrobusinfo.bsky.social. Download the MetroPulse app for the latest info.

DC subsidizes about 35% of @bikeshare.bsky.social’s costs. With the first price hike in 4 years coming in August, the city hopes to lower its subsidy to around 20%. via @rachelweiner.bsky.social #bikedc

charlottesville spent most of a decade revising its zoning code. it held endless community meetings and gave opponents ample opportunity to make their case. they lost. but a handful of rich homeowners sued and have gotten the new code overturned on a technicality.

Celebrate July 4 on America’s Metro System with FREE fares on Metrorail, Metrobus, and MetroAccess after 5 p.m. + WRAPPED vehicles on every mode! 🤩🎆 Track them at wmata.com/live by clicking “special edition.” Service info: wmata.com/about/news/M...

New super rush hour frequency on the @wmata.com Metro Red Line! 🚇🔴

“she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror”

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

This intersection was missing a fourth crosswalk until the crash. Shouldn’t take an injury to prompt a fix, but I am genuinely grateful for all of the incremental safety improvements that DDOT is installing systematically across the District.

D.C. government is taking out a protected bike lane for the first time, saying the flexposts are ugly. Unclear what this means for the many other flexposts around the city marking bike lanes, curb extensions, etc www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

At budget oversight hearing, DDOT head Sharon Kershbaum says she can't break down the $202 million for the RFK stadium infrastructure -- how much roads, how much sidewalks, how much utilities, how much transit study -- into anything more specific.

A @wmata.com Metrorail speedrun in 15h 35m. Just beware: “the ding gets a little traumatic.” via @rachelweiner.bsky.social

The fence is down! www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

With the fence up, Bowser calls Dupont Circle closure an "unfortunate error" and says she's leaning on Park Service to reverse. At the same time she says police had “a lot of events to be responsible for" and there was a "public safety issue" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

After pushback, Dupont Circle park will no longer be closed for Pride -- www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Park Service to close Dupont Circle park during WorldPride. "It is intimately linked with the gay community and the gay rights movement and so many other rights movements over the years. To just arbitrarily shut it down... is such an affront to not only the gay community but everyone in [DC].”

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

First credit card payments logged on the DC Metro

DC Streetcar is being wound down in the next two years and will be replaced by what Mayor Bowser calls a “next generation streetcar” (aka an electric bus) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...