Metro
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Metro hypes 7000-series rail cars but forgets the spell check
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Next stop: Farrabut North? Woodlley Park? A model for a new Metro car features these misspellings now, but Metro assures riders that we'll face no such embarrassments in the sleek cars themselves next year.
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How should WMATA address suicides and sexual harassment?
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Society's problems frequently find their way onto our transit. What responsibility does Metro have to deter them and what are the best ways?
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Metro wants better ways to report sexual harassment
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WMATA now allows riders to submit reports of harassment to an e-mail address and hope to launch a public awareness campaign in the months to come.
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Frustrated Metro riders challenge Metro's vision of rebuilding
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WMATA's six public meetings on forthcoming fare hikes has underscored the rift between the official vision of Metro Forward and the experience of the more vocal riders who are disappointed with the service and feel higher fares will punish the wrong people.
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Half a million for a D.C. streetcar study? Sounds about right
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Quality transportation planning is expensive, and everyone, from WMATA to the Office of Planning, spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to craft their reports.
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D.C. Metro's struggle to communicate 'a deterioration of service'
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How can Metro meaningfully communicate a crumbling level of service not likely to improve any time soon?
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'Parks and Recreation' shows some D.C. Metro love
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WMATA just can't win, even in the fictional town of Pawnee.
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Homeland Security has its eye on your Metro tweets, D.C. riders
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Big Brother is watching, and he wants to know about your time on WMATA.
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Both WMATA and its riders craft new tools to track the system
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As Metro unveils a new alert system for bus and rail riders, its social media manager tries out a new Twitter tool and a rider gets serious about tracking sexual harassment throughout WMATA.
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Photographers shouldn't have to defend legal Metro photos to WMATA
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Riders should have the freedom to take and tweet any photos they want. Metro says it's legal, after all. So why do photographers keep running to WMATA staff and other riders who tell them it's forbidden?
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Noxious hot dog rots on D.C. Metro platform
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God help us, D.C. Look what we're doing! Here's a photo of an ancient, decaying hot dog on the Ballston Metro platform.
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D.C. Metro riders, here are your demographics
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Who rides the Metro? The average age: 48. The gender breakdown: 53% female, 47% male. And then there's other factors — place of residence, car ownership, and more. A new infographic shows the breakdown.
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The Courthouse Metro station hosts a rider's haunting song
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One WMATA rider made a joyful noise not long ago on a D.C. Metro station. Over the weekend the following video emerged from what appears to be the Courthouse station in Arlington, Northern Virginia.
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Metro bus investigaton; Changes to DC mental health services; Helping soldiers with PTSD
CommentToday on NewsTalk,Jennifer Donelan filled in for Bruce DePuyt. ABC7's Kris Van Cleave talked about his findings about Metro Bus drivers caught speeding and running red lights. We spoke with the director of the District's Department of Mental Health, Steve Baron, about the end of a 35-year class action lawsuit. And Dr. Sudip Bose talked about options available to soldiers suffering from PTSD.
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D.C. Metro grapples with how to talk and confront sexual harassment
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What risks do women riders face when they board the District's trains? Several testified before the D.C. Council with disturbing tales of lewd comments, groping, and exposure — and they're demanding that WMATA does better.
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Let WMATA hear your frustrations about the Metro budget and fare hikes
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Metro officials are facing a crunched budget, news of employee theft, and possibly a loss of federal funds if the president's budget goes into effect. How to communicate that to riders? A survey and six public hearings.
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The Silver Line Metro needs station names
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Metro wants to know what to call the new station names on the proposed Silver Line, which will extend the Metrorail out to Dulles. Floris? Innovation? Herndon?
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New 'Metro Master' iPhone app promises an easier WMATA ride
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David Glidden and Andrew Thal published a new app yesterday that offers a better way to navigate the Metro. They spent months riding the system to calculate Metro Master's benefits, which include data about which cars are least likely to be crowded, arrival times, and trivia.
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