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.
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.
Metro is celebrating the return of giant pandas to Washington D.C. through a special SmarTrip card collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Metro has its second annual personalized ridership report. This year it’s called Metro Rewind! It builds off the of last year’s “Your Metro Report,” which nearly 100,000 customers used to learn about their ridership activity from 2023. It was the first report of its kind in the public transit industry.
The public comment period on Metro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) has begun and the community is encouraged to take our survey and provide written comments at wmata.com/budget by 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.
Metro is prepared to move customers for Inauguration Day with additional train service and earlier hours. Per the request of the United States Secret Service and the United States Capitol Police, Metrorail will open at 4 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 20 to accommodate the crowds.
Metrobus expects to operate under a Severe service plan on Tuesday, Jan. 7 and will increase service as roads become passable throughout the day. Severe service will reduce the number of Metrobus routes from 193 to 42.