Tuesday marks one year since 5-year old Allison Hart was struck and killed in a pedestrian crosswalk in northeast D.C. and many in the community say the street is still unsafe.
In 2019, six Metro stations south of Reagan National Airport were shut down for a whole summer. Now, those same six stations will be closed again for the next six weeks in the name of more improvements.
WMATA and the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, the independent oversight safety agency for Metrorail, are investigating both a track fire on the Red Line that occurred Saturday (July 30) as well as the Metro’s response to it.