A morning roundup of news, opinion, and links from City Paper and around the District. Send tips and ideas to [email protected]. In the two-and-a-half years since an electrical arcing ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - WUSA9 is seeking witness accounts and photos of major Metro disruptions caused by sparks and or smoke generated when electrical insulators fail to control electrical arcing. Have ...

WASHINGTON — Public safety advocates say Metro put riders of a crippled Red Line train in danger, maybe breaking a federal guideline-- and its own policy-- by sending a train full of people towards ...

Yet there was little evident progress on arcing-incident reduction; 12 were documented in the year’s first three months, compared with 11 in the first quarter of 2016. At that rate, Metrorail arcing ...

WASHINGTON — Metro riders were delayed by more track fires in the three months that ended Sep. 30 than the same period a year earlier. The track fire trend in Metro’s latest quarterly safety report ...

WASHINGTON — Metro’s decision to take some rail cars out of service for maintenance may lead to fewer smoke and fire incidents in the system. A WTOP review of publicly available information on the ...