Last week, the Washington Post Co. released a new public transit iPhone app, DCRider. (If you don’t have an iPhone, you can also use DCRider on your computer: http://www.expressnightout.com/dcrider.)
The free app features:

Train times and Metro …

On August 1, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) wrote a memo to all MetroAccess drivers telling them to stop picking up anyone who could not pay the full fare, starting on Monday. Now, …

This morning’s Board of Trade/Council of Governments task force meeting to gain public input on Metro governance and best practices was a disappointment, expressed many participants.
Here are some of the complaints that resonated among most of …

Do you have ideas about how to improve Metro? Now’s your chance to talk.
On Thursday, July 1, a joint task force run by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) and the Greater Washington Board of …

Yesterday I attended “Biking, Walking, and Public Transport: Smart Mobility for the 21st Century” at the Goethe-Institut.
The event kicked off with a great hands-on demonstration of how to change a bike tire by Daniel Hoagland, D.C.’s …

If you see your bus driver texting – or dozing – what can you do? Or how about if you notice a train conductor talking on a cell phone?
These were some of the questions that …

Last Thursday, the Metro Board of Directors unanimously approved the biggest fare hike in the history of the transit agency, totaling nearly $109 million in rail, bus and paratransit fare increases. The deal was …

There’s been lots of buzz this week in College Park, Md. about accessibility and transit.
First, early this week, there were reports of the controversy surrounding the school’s plans to close Campus Drive to private …

Come one, come all! The “DC Streetcar Showcase” is coming to town!
There’s been much anticipation of the revival of D.C.’s streetcar system, which ran on 200 miles of track around the city for a hundred …

For those of you who haven’t gotten your livability and smart growth fix lately, we’d like to alert you to a couple local news items.
First, the Montgomery County Planning Department is kicking off ReThink Montgomery, …