Current issues
- Fare increase crucial to maintaining Metro operations in FY09
- MetroAccess paratransit service
- Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project
- Safety and security, post-September 11, 2001
This page provides a brief overview of a variety of current issues that are frequently in the news, along with links to background information.
MetroAccess paratransit service
- MetroAccess section of the Metro web site
- Late and missed MetroAccess trips cut in half
- MetroAccess Improvements
- Metro upgrades, adds more vehicles to MetroAccess fleet
- Public forums on MetroAccess service set for March 13
- Record number of people with disabilities using free ride program
- Metro announces members to MetroAccess review committee
- MetroAccess establishes trip confirmation calls
- MetroAccess to establish a Critical Trip Management team
- Metro Board creates task force to review MetroAccess service
- MetroAccess service improves
- MetroAccess makes additional changes as efforts to improve the service continue
- MetroAccess service continues to make weekday improvements
- MetroAccess weekend service strong
- Transition to new MetroAccess provider slowly improving
- New company to oversee MetroAccess service
- MetroAccess Program Paratransit Services for Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) is the project sponsor of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. DRPT has contracted with Dulles Transit Partners, LLC, to provide engineering and other services. The Project is the first transit project being constructed under the Virginia Public Private Transportation Act. WMATA is serving as DRPT's technical manager. For further information, see DRPT's project Web site.
Safety and security
Metro has been very vigilant as it relates to post-September 11 safety and security measures. Requests for federal funds have resulted in new security initiatives including the expansion of the chemical sensor program. Trash and recycling bins were removed from platforms and replaced with bomb containment bins at mezzanines. More K-9 police dogs have been procured. The links below will provide you with more information on recent security enhancements. Links are in chronological order.
- Newspaper recycling bins returned to platforms
- Metro security enhanced since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
- Metro steps up security as a precaution after foiled London terror plot - Aug. 10, 2006
- Morning Red Line service disrupted because of suspicious package - Aug. 9, 2006
- Metro security enhanced since the 2005 London transit bombings - July 7, 2006
- Metro to step up safety procedures in light of workers' deaths - May 31, 2006
- Metro to build Transit Police substation at Fort Totten - May 12, 2006
- Metro, FRA and ENSCO Unveil the Nation's First Emergency Evacuation Simulator - May 10, 2006
- Metro Transit Police to take course to identify terrorists - March 9, 2006
- Metro hosts emergency preparedness outreach events at Metrorail stations - March 3, 2006
- Crime in Metro system falls in 2005 - Feb. 15, 2006
- Metro to spend security money on cameras, control center and upgrades - Jan. 12, 2006
- Metro focused on how to respond and recover from chemical, biological attack
- Metro Transit Police to gain explosives detection dogs through Transportation Security Administration canine program
- Metro Has Systems, Procedures For Emergency Situations
- Metro increases security
- Metro to Replace the Public Address System and Closed Circuit Television Monitors In Its Underground Metrorail Stations
- Metro's Board of Directors approve the purchase of new bomb containment trash receptacles to be placed inside metrorail stations
- Metro increases security with return of elevated alert level
- Metro to purchase additional security-related equipment, modify some operating procedures, promote customer and employee vigilance following train bombings in Madrid
- Metro prepared for emergencies, including loss of power
- Metro increases security as alert level increases to orange
- Metro increases security as nation returns to orange alert
- Metro officials ready to decontaminate vehicles for biological threats
- Program for response options and Technology enhancement against Chemical/Biological Terrorism (PROTECT) and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
- Metrorail to install videotaping capability for station cameras
- "Dear Fellow Rider" letters distributed to customers on safety and security
- Metro opens early at request of Pentagon
- Metro returns to normal operating hours
- Metro removes trash and recycling bins
- Metro's general manager explains removal of trash bins in "Dear Fellow Rider" letter
- Metro requests $190 M from Federal government for security enhancements
- Metro removes newspaper vending machines from stations
- Metro improves procedures for dealing with suspected hazardous materials
- Metro mail room tests for anthrax found to be negative
- White House Office of Management and Budget gives Metro $10 M for security enhancements
- Metro conducts emergency drill related to chemical sensors
- All 10,000 Metro employees dedicated to safety and security
- Department of Defense restricts use of Pentagon Metrorail station elevator
- Metro requests $107.5 M for security enhancements
- Metro prepares for IMF/World Bank protests, meetings, April 2002
- Metro handles IMF/World Bank meetings and protests, April 2002
- Metro to unveil emergency training tunnel facility
- New bomb containment trash bins to be installed
- Metro issues another "Dear Fellow Rider" letter with safety as the focus
- 9/11 has changed all of us
- Metro increases security as alert level increases to orange
- Metro Transit Police partner with Departments of Homeland Security and Energy to receive additional radiological detection equipment
- Metro increases security as war begins
