President Donald Trump has signed a resolution for final approval of the creation of the new Metro Safety Commission, an oversight agency that will be responsible for making Metro safer. The long-awaited commission is seen as a critical move for public safety that will help address Metro’s concerning safety record

The last few years have seen a spate of bad news for Metro (officially known as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or “WMATA”). There have been safety failures and accidents resulting in death and injury. The Federal Government has been forced to step in and take over safety oversight.

You likely remember that Metro shut down for a full day this past March, as federal safety inspectors investigated the Metro system for safety violations. In fact, for weeks federal inspectors have been conducting a safety “blitz” to uncover problems with the system. Now, the results of the inspections are

As we recently blogged, Metro’s rail system is currently overseen by the Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”), an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”). To fix Metro’s endemic safety problems on its rail system, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that Metro’s rail system be reclassified under federal law as

Last evening – Tuesday May 12 th – an Amtrak train traveling from Washington, DC to New York derailed and overturned in northeast Philadelphia. At the time of the incident, Train 188 was carrying over 240 passengers. Tragically, several passengers have been pronounced dead and dozens more have suffered injuries. Here is

The Washington metropolitan area is a sprawling, densely populated region centered on Washington, DC. The area has an estimated population of nearly 6,000,000, making it the largest metropolitan area in the Southeast and the seventh-largest in the United States. Although the heart of the metro area may be its urban