LOCAL TRANSPORTATION

A safety audit revealed that Metro workers have had near misses with trains due to poor oversight and training.

The White House also asked Congress for emergency funding to deal with wildfires and prepare for hurricanes.

Maryland officials have asked private industry Friday to help design and build a replacement for the fallen Key Bridge and open it no later than October 15, 2028.

The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether leaders of Washington’s Metro system have interfered with the work of former inspectors general.

Over the past two decades, a Baltimore harbor safety committee repeatedly discussed the risks that ever-larger cargo ships posed to local bridges, according to previously unreported records obtained by The Washington Post.

Nearly two months after knocking down the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the container ship Dali has been “refloated” and is back in Baltimore.

What to know about the crew still on board the ship that struck the Baltimore bridge.

Maryland will have federal money in a matter of days to pay for the Key Bridge recovery and rebuilding mission, but longer-term funding could take months.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after the lyricist of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” collapsed into the Patapsco River after being struck by a freighter.

Virginia wooed Amazon HQ2 to Arlington by promising to ‘urbanize’ Route 1. Now the state wants to build a sports arena further down that road in Alexandria.

The legislation, passed Tuesday by the D.C. Council, will create a point system for speed-camera violators and impose new penalties on repeat offenders.

More cash from D.C., Maryland and Virginia will probably prevent extreme cuts to Metro service, such as closed stations. But fare hikes and other cuts are possible.

Officials said they will ease the impact of a planned sports arena in Alexandria with expanded turn lanes and more frequent trains and buses.

Starting Monday, D.C. drivers could be fined $100 for driving, parking or stopping in a bus lane.

Depending on where you had to be, the heaviest snowstorm to hit the Washington area in more than two years was a glorious gift or a time-sucking headache.

County executive Mark Elrich’s budget proposal includes a major expansion to the county’s bus rapid transit network along two new routes.

Rachel Ryan underwent countless surgeries in a 37-day hospital stay. Her story illustrated the chain reaction of crime in a violent year in the nation’s capital.

D.C. is struggling to slow carnage on the roads as it faces unmet goals in cutting traffic fatalities by next year.