WMATA

  • Washington Metro Area Transit Authority General Manager Paul Wiedefeld announced during a press conference March 16 that the D.C. Metrorail will reopen around 5 a.m. on Thursday. He cautioned that some areas may be under single tracking conditions if further need for repairs are discovered.

    March 16, 2016
  • Respondents to Federal News Radio's survey on how well the Office of Personnel Management handled getting out information about operating status overall gave the agency a thumbs up. But many survey takers expressed hope that OPM would start making its decision on status earlier in the evening so they could make child and dependent care.

    February 01, 2016
  • By MEREDITH SOMERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders said Friday that an electrical malfunction that filled a Metro tunnel with smoke last month, killing one person and injuring dozens, should be a wakeup…

    February 13, 2015
  • If the recent Washington Metro tunnel fire showed anything, it's that emergency coordination down under is practically non-existent. Equally missing was interoperable radio communications — something the federal government has deemed essential for emergency response. Federal efforts to improve radio go back at least 20 years. Alan Tilles, chairman of the Telecommunications Department at the law firm Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss the communications failure.

    January 28, 2015
  • Special WTOP series asks, \'Are we safer now\'?

    June 21, 2010