Red Line

Heads up for Red Line riders: Construction is expected to cause delays and single tracking for about six weeks and two stations will be closed during two weekends in August. Metro says it’s planned round-the-clock work to make transit safer. Riders can expect impacts from Saturday until Aug. 29, WMATA says. Trains will run every 18 minutes along the entire…

Heads up for Red Line riders: Repairs are expected to cause delays and single tracking for about six weeks. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

An FBI agent was charged with attempted murder in an off-duty shooting on board a Metro train passing through Montgomery County in December, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

An FBI agent was charged with attempted murder in an off-duty shooting in December on board a Metro train passing through Montgomery County, according to court records unsealed Tuesday.

Red line trains between Union Station and Rhode Island Avenue are delayed due to a man struck by a train at NoMa-Gallaudet station, according to a WMATA Service alert. “The victim showed no signs of life when first responders arrived at the scene,” a WMATA spokesperson said.  On Sunday afternoon, DC Fire and EMS said the accident “has been determined…

Metro is making a number of organizational changes after the transit agency says it found serious failures in a recent incident on the Red Line.  Safety lapses were discovered after an investigation into the March 26 episode near the Rhode Island Avenue station. A train was disabled for over an hour, stranding over 100 passengers.  The most egregious safety concern…

A disabled Metro train temporarily stranded more than 100 people on the Red Line in Northeast Washington Friday afternoon. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A disabled Metro train temporarily stranded more than 100 people on the Red Line in Northeast Washington Friday afternoon.

The Metro Transit Police Department revealed Friday a preliminary chronology of the shooting involving an FBI agent earlier this week.

An FBI agent was involved in a shooting on a Red Line train at the Medical Center Metro Station. Mark Segraves reports.

A shooting abroad a Metro Red Line train involved an FBI agent, the FBI and Metro say. One person was taken to a hospital, police say.

An FBI agent was involved in a shooting on board a Metro train early Tuesday and an investigation is underway, Metro and FBI officials say. A man was shot multiple times and was taken to a hospital. Information on his identity and condition were not immediately released. Metro Transit Police received a report just before 7 a.m. of “an FBI…

A Metro train on the Red Line has derailed outside the Silver Spring station, officials say. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries, fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said.

A Metro train on the Red Line derailed outside the Silver Spring station Tuesday morning, forcing the suspension of train traffic in the area but not injuring any riders or workers, officials say. The train appears to have gone through a red signal right before it derailed, according to a preliminary investigation by the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, the independent…

Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene — an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city. After watching what she called the “widely...

Rain seeping into some Metro stations has caused smoke on the tracks and led to major delays on the Red Line. News4 Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss breaks down the issue and what Metro plans to do about it.

Transportation reporter Adam Tuss revisits the events that led up to deadly D.C. Metro crash on June 22, 2009 and how the event changed public transportation in the D.C. area.

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