Metro is gearing up for cherry blossom season when more than 1.5 million people visit the region each year.
Cherry Blossom-Themed Bus and Train Wraps as Metro Prepares to Move Crowds for Cherry Blossom Season
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Metro has announce the release of the revised FY26 proposed budget. Metro says the revised budget reflects ”a positive trend in ridership and revenue that underscores the authority’s service reliability and recovery.”
On Saturday and Sunday, the Red Line will operate in two segments between Shady Grove and Medical Center and between Van Ness and Glenmont due to track maintenance.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, Metrobus moved to a severe snow plan.
Metro is modernizing 27 elevators across more than a dozen locations starting today at the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter Station– later including elevators at the Glenmont, Rockville, and Wheaton stations.
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Metro recently presented a proposed balanced budget for fiscal year 2026 which WMATA states “reflects the commitment leadership has made to financial sustainability, identifying cost savings, and building on financial accomplishments in recent years.”
WMATA recently shared a letter written by an MCPS 3rd grader named Noah from Forest Knolls Elementary School in Silver Spring.
Safety remains at the forefront as Metro continues to move more customers throughout the region each month. Metro ended 2024 as an industry leader in three key safety categories: collisions, derailments, and customer injury.
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WMATA has shared that it’s seeing “record ridership as more customers return to the office.” The morning rush this past Monday, February 3rd, saw 92,600 trips, which is the highest Monday rush hour ridership since 2020.
MCDOT has shared that due to maintenance work, Metrorail service will be impacted from Saturday, February 1 from 7 a.m. – 1 a.m. and Sunday, February 2 from 7 a.m. – Midnight. On the Red Line, Metro will replace switches at Friendship Heights interlocking, perform rail and fastener renewal and third rail maintenance, and conduct grout pad repair and leak mitigation. Bethesda, Friendship Heights, and Tenleytown stations will be closed. Below are the anticipated service impacts:
A person was fatally struck by a Metro train between the Grosvenor and North Bethesda Metro stations on Saturday night.