Local officials are planning a dramatic expansion of the local bus network, saying new rail lines are too expensive and take ...

Clarke reported that crime was down by 65% across the metro system, which is the lowest it's been in the past seven years, ...

Leaders from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA/Metro) met with regional police and fire officials at ...

WASHINGTON — In a move to enhance safety and efficiency across the Washington Metro system, officials are considering installing platform screen doors (PSDs) at train platforms. This is part of a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Doors on platforms? Trains without operators? Metro has grand plans... but are they realistic? Documents released by Metro this week envision a future in which fully ...

Automated trains have been running on Metro’s Red Line for the past few months. But a safety organization that oversees the D.C. transit agency’s operations is against expanding automation to ...

Metro is banning people from the transit system for up to a year who have been arrested on sex offenses or for assaulting a station manager or employee.

Metro announced that there will be service changes to some of its trains during Cinco de Mayo weekend as crews complete track ...

Police, fire chiefs and first responders gathered for a summit at Metro headquarters Tuesday to talk about safety. The ...

Since then, the District of Columbia has overwhelmingly surpassed Baltimore as a big league city by any conceivable ...

WASHINGTON (7News ... With demonstrated system reliability and reduced safety risks, the WMSC can consider concurrence for ATO expansion onto other Metrorail lines.” WMSC and Metro officials ...

Metro’s Red Line has been running automated train service for the last several months, and now the transit agency is planning to double down on automation in the coming years.