• Metro Transit Police plan on increasing patrols in stations and on trains as school gets underway. (AP/WaPo)

• Preservationists band together against the Union Station "pit." The proposal would cut a 1,300-square-foot hole into the Great Hall. (Housing Complex)

• The groundbreaking for Canal Park near Navy Yard is scheduled for next Monday. Construction on the three-block park should take about a year to complete. (JDLand)

• DCist provides an easy-to-read map of safe neighborhoods for Washington-bound Tea Partiers concerned about public safety. (DCist)

• Unsuck: The driver who's train was hit in last year's deadly Metro crash had quite the safety record. (Unsuck DC Metro)