Metro’s troubled 6000 series trains are slowly returning to service after being sidelined for 10 months following a string of detachments and the rebuilding of the apparatus that connects rail cars.

Metro riders can expect the current level of limited rail service to continue for three more months after the transit agency’s top official said Thursday that Metro wants to focus on finding the ...

The Washington-area's Metro system said Tuesday that a safety commission has accepted its plan to phase back into service the 7000-series railcars, which were taken off the tracks following a ...

Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said Monday during a briefing that Metro is working on plans to put more 2000 Series and 3000 Series rail cars — which date to the 1980s — back into ...

Metro trains will only run about every 30 minutes Monday as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority investigates an issue with axles on its newest rail cars, the transit authority said ...

Wiedefeld said, “We’ll get to the bottom” of why Metro’s board and the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission weren’t told about a spike in 7000 Series wheel problems this year.

Metro is proposing a return to automatic train operation, which it has not used since a deadly 2009 accident on the Red Line that killed nine people.

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC), which was federally created to oversee Metro on rail safety and in the past has released a number of scathing audits of various areas of ...

Planned work has led to shuttles replacing the metro rail service over the weekend for parts of the ... a.m. on Saturday and from 6 a.m. to midnight on Sunday, according to the Washington Metropolitan ...

WASHINGTON — Metro, and manufacturer Kawasaki, have known for years about problems with the wheel assemblies in the transit system's newest $2 million rail cars, the transportation safety board ...

Riders were already leaving L.A.’s bus network when Washington arrived in 2015, and the decline continued during his tenure.Trips on Metro buses fell 25% over a decade, the steepest drop of any ...

Metro railcars will be built at a new factory in Hagerstown, Maryland, manufacturer Hitachi Rail and the governor's office announced Monday. The $70 million, 307,000-square-foot factory — about ...