Fairly on time this morning. Were they of it all . Absolutely. Were people frustrated question mark sure. But for the most part they were not angry. Everyone tries to stand up and pushed together. Doors opening. Could the troubled Transit Agency stay on track for the busy Tuesday Morning commute . It appeared that it did it. Its going good. Im not a regular writer. I will give them a b. Sam the fear that more commuters would pack cars after learning there were no major hiccups on monday. With 70 fewer trains, the simply is not enough room for everyone. I usually get a i have never seen people standing, and the amount of just heavier than it usually is. We still have several days of tracking in virginia. Blue, orange, and silver lines are close between Eastern Market and minnesota avenue. Back to you. Jummy now we move to the 2016 president ial race. s biggestonald trump endorser distancing himself from the likely candidate. Textbook definition of a andt comment indefensible is what Hou
Yourself today at a metro station between church, and west falls you were offered a pamphlet. It talks about the extended maintenance schedule, and how difficult this will be for metro riders and commuters. Even though today was the first day of the schedule, it was rough. One workday down, one year left to go. Your commute normally . 10 minutes. Chris how long was it today . About an hour. I think tomorrow will be more telling. Neglect,ter decades of metro has begun its maintenance blitz. Over the d asked year, crews will cram in three years of muchneeded repairs in the next year. See major delays from 15 search projects, the first between falls church and ballston, starting today. Andur system was broken, the plan we have in place as difficult and inconvenient as it is come it is crucial to get metro where we wanted to be. Chris metro said that overall ridership on the entire system was down just 1 . For the stations west of downton, ridership was 24 . I know they are in the middle o
Definitive cause in a gaithersburg plane crash that a killed a mother and her two children. In its preliminary report, the agency said ice may have played a significant role. Documents revealed the plane encountered icing conditions while trying to land at the Montgomery County air park in december of 2014. The three men on board and the woman and two Young Children inside the home were killed. A fredericksburg woman is recovering in the hospital after crashing this plane. Chopper 4 flew over the scene last night. Troopers say roberta was going down the runway when she unintentionally lifted it off the runway and crashed. Today council could vote to raise the minimum wage to 15. The measure would also increase the minimum wage for tipped workers to 5. 50 4 31. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Regardless of how humid it was, the good news is its going to be even nicer today and tomorrow. So lets turn to chuck bhel for the details on that and 4 things to know. Right, humidity deba
Hours are looking. 70 degrees at 7 00 a. M. , 80 by 7 00 tonight and most of the rain showers should be over by then. So evening plans should be mainly dry. And off to a cool breezy start tomorrow morning. Well talk about those tomorrow cool high temperatures coming up in a tumor minutes. Back over to you. Metros Safetrack Program continues. Were watching your commute to make sure it goes smoothly. Metro says trains will be more crowded today with more people heading into work. So if you can, leave early. And we have Team Coverage now with molette green at the East Falls Church station, but lets begin with jack taylor. It is day number two of a morning rush hour with this ongoing track work. Other than and silver line going to be single tracking again this morning between East Falls Church and ballston. Rains will run every 18 minutes. Monday is lighter volume than tuesday, so what happened yesterday will be very different this morning. Well keep you posted. 198, some sort of an issue
And we obtained coverage on the crowd from trains to confusion on the platform and the Ripple Effect from the rails to the roads. We begin with adam tuss. He is at the foggy bottom station where metros leaders wrapped up a news conference. Reporter thats right. This is where a lot of people are getting on trains to get back into the virginia where the safetrack surge is taking place right now. By all accounts, this first day of safetrack during the rush hour is being called a success. Safetrack day one in the books and metros leaders are feeling confident about the way the day has gone. So i want to urge everyone whatever you did today do tomorrow, do wednesday, do for the duration of this surge because it worked okay today. Reporter some did report more congestion on the roads as people at the affected stations did find alternatives to get around. Metros general riders theyll only have to deal with maintenance during the time its been slotted, nothing more. We have scheduled this to g