Buses
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Metrorail attracts more riders in 2012 but slower than national average
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More and more people are choosing to ride the Metro and the bus in the D.C. region, and across the country, to take public transportation, but the growth locally continues to favor the bus over rail.
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D.C. is America's number-two travel destination this summer
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Beware, commuters, the tourists are coming! The American Public Transportation Association revealed that about 104 million Americans — a third of the country — plan to travel to a big city this summer.
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What the 3rd Street Tunnel traffic looked like after last Friday's bus fire
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See the slow dread that accompanied the closing of the road last week after a smokey, confusing accident.
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Have Metro's 2012 delays driven commuters to take the bus?
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Single-tracking, offloads, and escalator problems? No thanks. More District commuters have begun to take the bus in the last few months.
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Metrobus catches fire, prompts a recall of 94 Orion VI buses
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WMATA has recalled scores of buses in the last two months due to mechanical failures and spontaneous fires.
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Real-time bus arrival signs are coming to Washington, D.C.
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Several local institutions have come together to offer a new technology for riders in the coming months.
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Watch an old D.C. Metrobus come back to life (video)
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WMATA social media manager Brian Anderson, we know you're a fan of Sarah McLachlan but this little tune is something else. Has transit ever been so buoyant?
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Jarrett Walker imagines unified transit that respects its riders
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The Portland transportation expert has come to D.C. to promote a new book called Human Transit. Here's his thoughts on Metrobuses, the Circulator, and how a transit agency should attempt to communicate in the 21st century.
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Greyhound bus driver deals with unruly passengers by simply leaving
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D.C. bus drivers, here's an example of what not to do. A Greyhound bus driver stopped in the middle of Missouri, and frustrated with her passengers, simply locked the bus at a truck-stop and left in the night. The riders spent their entire evening stranded inside the vehicle.
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Idea of the day: Unite Metro and bus commuters in a social network
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Why not use social media like Facebook, Twitter, or entirely new networks to bring together people who ride public transit together? Harriet Tregoning suggested the idea at last week's Rail~Volution conference. Perhaps bus route riders should even get matching T-shirts.
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WMATA's five Metrobus public hearings start tonight
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Our city's bus routes will be changing around the middle of next year, and now, WMATA is giving riders a chance to comment on how to improve the system and make it more efficient. The hearings begin tonight at 6 p.m. and continue through Thursday.
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Picture of the day: Metrobus hits the curb
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Many D.C. commuters have known a Metrobus or two in their time to bump a curb, perhaps, but what about this sight — a Metrobus literally up on the curb and on the verge of being towed away.
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WMATA wisdom: End congestion by simply ending some Metrobus lines
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The transit agency is proposing a new Metrobus schedule that would "maximize service" and reduce congestion. The proposal really comes down to the notion that you should add more buses where there's a lot of people and take buses away when there's not.
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A new Metrobus is hitting the streets of Washington, D.C.
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The New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 has hit the streets in recent months as WMATA's newest incarnation of Metrobus. Check out photos and details of the sweet ride here.
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What's the most famous bus in history?
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Is Ken Kesey's bus the most famous in history? Here's a few contenders that might give "Further" a run for its money.
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Intercity buses to be centralized at Union Station
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Union station is about to get a whole lot busier. More than 70 percent of D.C.’s intercity bus service will relocate there by this fall.
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Metro's biggest union meets its riders: 9 takeaways
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Last night's meeting between WMATA employees and the public lasted more than two hours--here's what you should take away from it
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ART Bus operators strike
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Arlington bus drivers continued their strike Tuesday. They say the bus company prevents them from taking bathroom breaks and sexually harasses employees.
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