(Photo: Jay Westcott)

• Fatalities down 54% in two years. (WTOP)

• Metro's plans to lengthen train cars will have to wait. (Examiner)

• An influx of 36 surveillance cameras at GW. (Hatchet)

• An inside look at the Metro escalator maintenance 'pick' system. (Unsuck DC Metro)

• Struck in DC this week. (GGW)

• Cops collar juvey for random Hill face-punching. (Hill is Home)

• A new app for real-time Metro train locations. (GGW)