Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Metro will not extend its hours later into the night as the District requested. On Thursday morning, the Metro board voted 7-1 to keep the current hours, which allows for longer overnight maintenance time.

Metro board chairman Jack Evans, who had pushed for restoring late-night service, said the vote reflected the realities facing the system.

Metro will keep its current hours for at least one more year after the District’s board members split Thursday on an effort to block the change.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and House representatives from neighboring jurisdictions penned a letter Monday warning Metro about the possible danger of buying its new railcars from foreign adversaries, mainly because of the risk of…

The development sets up a potentially contentious vote on Metro late-night service Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Metro expects to lose about $23 million in ridership and other revenue in the next budget year, because riders have turned away during shutdowns and single tracking around major construction projects, such as the monthslong…

WASHINGTON — Metro said it has plans this spring to renovate three aging bus loop facilities in Northwest D.C.

“We always seem to keep finding ourselves . . . at the same precipice,” former agency official says.

A group of Metropolitan Police Department officers and Metro Transit Police officers detained a group of young black children outside the Petworth Metro on Thursday night for at least 50 minutes.

D.C. officials are reportedly considering a compromise that would keep Metro running later but push back its opening by 30 minutes, according to a top Montgomery County transportation official.

“THE LATE-NIGHT hours, I was not here when they first came into being. I did some research and saw that when they were put into being, David Gunn, who was the general manager . . . made the comment that this will be the demise of Metro. So…

If you’re a resident of the Washington, DC area, chances are you’ve been following the debate over late night Metro service – or have been affected by the cuts. In 2016, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) cut late…

In honor of Mayor Muriel Bowser proclaiming last Monday to be “Take the Bus to Work” Day, I rode downtown on the 42 bus for my mile-and-a-half commute and it actually saved me a couple of minutes more than my normal method of transport…

The agency believes D.C. officials’ plan raises safety concerns for Metro, which is still catching up on long-ignored maintenance.

WASHINGTON — Metro moved closer Thursday to keeping its current hours for at least another year, even as the District threatened to block the plans in two weeks over concerns that the reduced service could remain indefinitely.

There are still two weeks left until the final vote on Metro’s operating hours, but a committee vote Thursday pushed back against a proposed return to previous late night service.

Metro would subsidize an Uber, Lyft or other on-demand trip for late-night workers under a plan the agency is proposing to the ride-hail services.

WASHINGTON — After Metro lost about $6 million in fare and other revenues during the recent partial shutdown of the federal government, the agency is working on plans to help riders continue to use the system if there is another shutdown…