During the 90-day period, Metro will increase efforts to restore 6000-series railcars to increase the availability of newer cars in the fleet.
Due to growing absenteeism rates across service areas related to COVID illness and exposures, Metro is reducing service schedules and implementing new workforce actions effective Monday, Jan. 10.
Officials concluded in an abundance of caution that moving to a nightly inspection of 7000-series railcars is the prudent course of action.
The agency is seeking to buy 10, 40-foot-standard-length buses from multiple manufacturers to test different bus and charging technologies and assess their performance.
Construction of the operations and maintenance facility is expected to take four years once all approvals are received and will open with a mix of the current Metrobus fleet and new battery-electric vehicles, transitioning to 100% electric as Metrobus’ electric bus fleet expands.
More than 3,000 transit professionals and stakeholders joined FTA’s national conversation held throughout July and August.
The changes, approved by the board in June, followed extensive public input about how riders plan to travel.
WMATA’s preventive maintenance program has cut the number of emergency track repairs in half since the 2018 fiscal year.
Transit agencies around the country have successfully implemented similar rules, such as LA Metro, BART, Dallas's DART, and Atlanta’s MARTA. WMATA developed its proposal taking those best practices into account.
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