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Summit topics include WMATA's expansion of its existing security programs as well as its chemical-biological sensor detection program.
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The $900,000 in funds will be used to hire contractors to specifically participate in FTA’s oversight efforts in an effort to eventually transfer that knowledge and expertise to the new Metrorail Safety Commission.
Read More →Addressing the growing concern of cell phone use on public transportation vehicles, many transit agencies are reevaluating their policies.
Read More →The agency is working with project sponsors and jurisdictional partners to find easy and cost effective ways to integrate the various light rail systems planned for the region. The $250,000 regional study will be paid for by the jurisdictions that fund Metro.
Read More →Local officials are leading an effort to restore service hours the agency cut beginning with its SafeTrack rebuilding effort in 2016.
Read More →The agency has estimated it will deplete its share of CARES funding by the end of the calendar year.
Read More →Potomac Yard will be Metro's 98th station and is Metro's second infill station, built between existing stations.
Read More →The hurricane, which left more than 14 dead and 4.5 million homes and businesses without power, cut a path of destruction on the East Coast.
Read More →The report makes near-term recommendations that can provide immediate relief to WMATA and the Virginia localities that provide funding to WMATA, as well as critical actions that must be taken in the coming months.
Read More →The $1.4 billion operating budget for Fiscal Year 2012 maintains the current level of rail, bus and paratransit services. The agency is doing more, while becoming more resource efficient. More than 91 cents of every Metro operating dollar directly funds core services, with only 9 cents funding support functions.
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