I guess I was not aware of this rat problem that DC has. I have never seen them around town. Well, scratch that I saw one NYC size rat in a garbage truck before on the way to work. I do see a lot of mice though ...

The DC Subway problem, How to Make Money and be Profitable?  On inauguration day Metro spent $5 million in operating costs but only brought in $3 million in fares. Now they are $2 million more in debt. So when you are debt what do you do? You ...

Some changes happened on the Metro Board of Director yesterday. Jim Graham a current WMATA board member and Ward 1 Council member for DC has been sworn in as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Council member at large Michael A. Brownwas also sworn in to the ...

I have to give a shout out to the Federal Government [Capitol Hill Crew] and Metro [Capitol South] for the best sidewalks at 6:45am! All other sidewalks are crap. Many on Independence Ave between 2nd St and 6th St SE are all iced over. Even in front ...

There are talks again that Metro is going to cut about 8% of its work force (900 jobs) in order to meet its budget numbers. Metro has to close about $190 million gap in the budget. One big question that everyone has is about fares. Metro chairman ...

Update: Metro is report 1,120,000 riders on Tuesday! That's a new record! Update: Metro numbers are still coming in from Tuesday (Inauguration Day).  I guess there really isn't an official number just yet.  As of 7pm the number of riders was at973,285 trips. Metro has set some pretty high ridership ...

Yesterday was an odd day to say the least. I was on my way to a talk about Web 2.0 and the Government (Social Media Club DC) and I was jumped about 300 feet from the building that I live in by a bunch of middle school thugs. ...

Metro has published its inauguration day service map. You can download it here.

Will Metro cuts jobs days before possibly the biggest event in DC that they have serviced?  The examiner is reporting that Metro wants to "...trim hundreds of jobs and make unprecedented cuts to rail and bus service as the transit agency grapples with the repercussions of a recession."  891 jobs ...

Are you one of the hundreds that waited in line for that commemorative Barack Obama SmartTrip card? If so your crazy. WTOP has a picture of the line that was at the Metro Center sales center.