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Explosions and smoke-filled tunnels. Frustrated riders and epic commutes. This is the new normal on Washington’s Metro. Metropocalypse, a weekly podcast from WAMU 88.5, explores the unpreced...
Metro is taking disciplinary action against half its track inspection department. Late-night trains will not return until July 2019 at the e...
WAMU's Martin DiCaro commutes with Metro's GM; we talk with a transportation expert about the impact of the rail system's impending hour cut...
On this week's podcast, we talk Metro's steps toward reducing service hours, a Silver Line throwdown and Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefel...
Red Line commuters can be thankful that the 10th SafeTrack surge is winding down. But the month-long rehab project, which shut down service...
The president-elect's promise to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure improvements is emerging as one of the least divisive aspects of his ag...
Buckle your seatbelts, because where we’re going, there are no roads (or single-tracking). We consider two potential scenarios for Metro in...
Want to hear something really scary? Metro’s 10th SafeTrack surge is hitting its most heavily trafficked artery, shutting down two stations...
Permanently ending late-night service. Temporary shutting down stations with low ridership. Many of the ideas for fixing Metro’s ills raise...
When it comes to Metro politics, the most important thing isn’t party lines — it’s regional lines. We talk to a WMATA board member from Prin...
Why are there so few seats on Metro platforms? How did D.C. home-rule advocates impact the historical trajectory of the rail system? Why are...
As playoff baseball returns to Washington, D.C., thousands of Nationals fans could face a choice: Stay for the end of a game, or leave early...
More than a decade ago, a top Metro official warned of the potential for a "death spiral" involving a confluence of maintenance problems, bu...
WMATA regularly gives itself a report card called Vital Signs, and the latest has some good news about railcar reliability, but bad news abo...
We talk to Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans about what he wants to see as the transit agency tries to fix its infrastructure and its culture....
We walk through all the ways Metro is having a bad summer with Politico's Lauren Gardner, Greater Greater Washington's David Alpert and memb...
Next time you're in an underground Metro station, look up and around. Are you in a calming streetscape setting? Or does it feel more like an...
As the bad news keeps coming for WMATA, we've been thinking about how Metro's woes compare with those of older systems. Kate Hinds, who cove...
Rep. Barbara Comstock discusses how changing the pay structure for Metro's unionized workers could help the transit agency close up some of...
Why is the air conditioning so bad on some Metro cars? And what, exactly, is happening out on the Orange Line tracks during SafeTrack surge...
Martin Di Caro and guest co-host Lauren Gardner of Politico take a bus bridge with Rep. Don Beyer and encounter a bottleneck along U.S. 1. C...
In front of a live audience, we nerd out on questions about ridership and "death spirals;" expansion plans and bus lanes; and the 1990s tech...
Greater Greater Washington founder (and fellow transportation nerd) David Alpert tells us about his website's MetroGreater contest. We answe...
In the latest Metropocalypse , we explore the future of Metro: What will the system look like in 10 years? Should responsibility for running...
In 1986, a federal official issued a warning: If Metro continued to expand rapidly, the system faced a future of stark choices over maintain...
SafeTrack hits its second phase, with full shutdowns of sections of the Orange Line forcing commuters to use bus "bridges" between stations....
We talk to civic hackers who use WMATA's open data sources to share information about delays, accidents and more. The principal of a charter...
The Metropocalypse crew is on the scene at the Ballston station in Virginia as the "new normal" takes effect. We also ask key questions of M...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Metropocalypse , WAMU 88.5's new podcast about Metro. WAMU 88.5's Martin DiCaro and Politico 's Martine...
Explosions and smoke-filled tunnels. Turf wars between government agencies. Frustrated riders and epic commutes. This has become the new nor...