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Today's data in Metro Rewind covers January 1, 2025 through December 5, 2025. We plan to do a re-release in early January that covers the entire 2025. Customers will have the opportunity to earn more badges and potentially increase their ranking between now and the 31st!
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's data in Metro Rewind covers January 1, 2025 through December 5, 2025. We plan to do a re-release in early January that covers the entire 2025. Customers will have the opportunity to earn more badges and potentially increase their ranking between now and the 31st!
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Metro Rewind is now LIVE! How many trips did you take? How many miles did you ride? Were you in the top 10%? See how your rides rank: www.metrorewind.com?utm_source=b...
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Metro Rewind is now LIVE! How many trips did you take? How many miles did you ride? Were you in the top 10%? See how your rides rank: www.metrorewind.com?utm_source=b...
Metrorewind dot com! Live now.
December 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Metrorewind dot com! Live now.
Transit-Oriented Golf Club (private, $300 membership fee)
17 inbound trips per day
17 inbound trips per day
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Transit-Oriented Golf Club (private, $300 membership fee)
17 inbound trips per day
17 inbound trips per day
Fare Gate or Faregate?
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Fare Gate or Faregate?
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Happy Labor Day from Metro!
Today, we celebrate our entire team of more than 13,000 employees for their hard work in keeping our communities connected and moving forward! As well as our incredible customers - we are so proud to serve this great region! 🚇🚍🚐
Today, we celebrate our entire team of more than 13,000 employees for their hard work in keeping our communities connected and moving forward! As well as our incredible customers - we are so proud to serve this great region! 🚇🚍🚐
September 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Happy Labor Day from Metro!
Today, we celebrate our entire team of more than 13,000 employees for their hard work in keeping our communities connected and moving forward! As well as our incredible customers - we are so proud to serve this great region! 🚇🚍🚐
Today, we celebrate our entire team of more than 13,000 employees for their hard work in keeping our communities connected and moving forward! As well as our incredible customers - we are so proud to serve this great region! 🚇🚍🚐
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Ever wonder how the Silver Line split came to be? 🚇
It takes a team! 👏
Hear from Kareen, one of the leaders behind the project that made it possible for Silver Line customers to travel to New Carrollton or Downtown Largo.
It takes a team! 👏
Hear from Kareen, one of the leaders behind the project that made it possible for Silver Line customers to travel to New Carrollton or Downtown Largo.
August 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ever wonder how the Silver Line split came to be? 🚇
It takes a team! 👏
Hear from Kareen, one of the leaders behind the project that made it possible for Silver Line customers to travel to New Carrollton or Downtown Largo.
It takes a team! 👏
Hear from Kareen, one of the leaders behind the project that made it possible for Silver Line customers to travel to New Carrollton or Downtown Largo.
I have discovered a new (to me) Worst Road In the World That Must Be Destroyed and it is Lake Shore Dr in Chicago.
July 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I have discovered a new (to me) Worst Road In the World That Must Be Destroyed and it is Lake Shore Dr in Chicago.
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"we all want safety, but parking is more important"
April 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"we all want safety, but parking is more important"
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Back on the beat with a story about a dramatic upzoning for Cambridge. It's now legal to build up to four stories, by right, citywide, with an affordable-bonus up for two more stories.
How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold
By making buildings up to four floors legal by right across the city, the hometown of Harvard and MIT has set a new benchmark for the abundant housing movement.
www.bloomberg.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Back on the beat with a story about a dramatic upzoning for Cambridge. It's now legal to build up to four stories, by right, citywide, with an affordable-bonus up for two more stories.
How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Cambridge leapfrogged every YIMBY reform to build Haussmann for Harvard:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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We're hiring an MD policy manager. You won't work directly with me, but you will get a lot of sassy Gchats from me about how Anne Arundel County deserves to be upzoned: ggwash.org/careerboard/...
Maryland Policy Manager at Greater Greater Washington
GGWash is seeking a Maryland Policy Manager to support our work on Maryland state housing policy and in Montgomery County. You’ll help build out our ongoing campaign for more housing production, conne...
ggwash.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We're hiring an MD policy manager. You won't work directly with me, but you will get a lot of sassy Gchats from me about how Anne Arundel County deserves to be upzoned: ggwash.org/careerboard/...
If federal aid for transit is in massive danger one thing states can do on their own is support efficient, low-capital cost bus service by boosting operating budget subsidies for agencies. Even more vital if/when tariffs add thousands to the cost of car ownership
February 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
If federal aid for transit is in massive danger one thing states can do on their own is support efficient, low-capital cost bus service by boosting operating budget subsidies for agencies. Even more vital if/when tariffs add thousands to the cost of car ownership
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If you see someone in crisis while riding Metro, know our Crisis Intervention Specialists and Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) are here to help. Call 202-962-2121 or text MYMTPD (696873). You can also call/text ‘988’ to reach the crisis hotline— available 24/7. #wmata
January 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you see someone in crisis while riding Metro, know our Crisis Intervention Specialists and Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) are here to help. Call 202-962-2121 or text MYMTPD (696873). You can also call/text ‘988’ to reach the crisis hotline— available 24/7. #wmata
One more L for historic preservation. A dark, cold and uninviting building that fails in both form and function.
Whether you are among the people who hate it or you're among the people who are wrong, Boston's brutalist City Hall is now a historic landmark. Check this out from @bertoscalese.bsky.social:
www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...
Boston City Hall is officially a landmark
Love it or hate it, Boston City Hall is historic. There's now paperwork to that effect.
www.wbur.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
One more L for historic preservation. A dark, cold and uninviting building that fails in both form and function.
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The Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance of 1925 went into effect 100 years ago today.
According to the L.A. Record, the first person arrested as a jaywalker was Charles Thompson, who was crossing Broadway between Seventh and Eighth streets, in downtown L.A., at 12:35 am.
According to the L.A. Record, the first person arrested as a jaywalker was Charles Thompson, who was crossing Broadway between Seventh and Eighth streets, in downtown L.A., at 12:35 am.
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance of 1925 went into effect 100 years ago today.
According to the L.A. Record, the first person arrested as a jaywalker was Charles Thompson, who was crossing Broadway between Seventh and Eighth streets, in downtown L.A., at 12:35 am.
According to the L.A. Record, the first person arrested as a jaywalker was Charles Thompson, who was crossing Broadway between Seventh and Eighth streets, in downtown L.A., at 12:35 am.
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“Americans did not choose car dependency. We didn’t vote for it, and it was not the winner in a free market competition. The real answer is complex, but a single turning point reveals an essential part of the story.”
www.planetizen.com/features/132...
www.planetizen.com/features/132...
The 100-Year Road to Car Dependency in the US
October 8, 2024, marks the centennial of the publication of what would soon become the Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance — a landmark on the road toward our car-dominated status quo.
www.planetizen.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Americans did not choose car dependency. We didn’t vote for it, and it was not the winner in a free market competition. The real answer is complex, but a single turning point reveals an essential part of the story.”
www.planetizen.com/features/132...
www.planetizen.com/features/132...
We've all heard of sneckdowns, but maybe we need a snappy word for cars a block from the metro that have clearly not been touched in four days, as evidence that parking policy isn't working.
January 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We've all heard of sneckdowns, but maybe we need a snappy word for cars a block from the metro that have clearly not been touched in four days, as evidence that parking policy isn't working.
Real management: facing retention issues and a changing workforce, ask employees in an objective manner what they dislike about their job instead of doing nothing or just throwing money at it. #trbam
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Real management: facing retention issues and a changing workforce, ask employees in an objective manner what they dislike about their job instead of doing nothing or just throwing money at it. #trbam
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Popular demands such as this one – to “gear them down” (mechanically limit vehicles’ maximum speed) – alarmed insiders in motordom. In response, they organized to shift blame from fast driving to careless walking.
December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Popular demands such as this one – to “gear them down” (mechanically limit vehicles’ maximum speed) – alarmed insiders in motordom. In response, they organized to shift blame from fast driving to careless walking.
Yes...said another way, delaying and deferring SOGR work for years cost riders millions of hours, and pushed many to driving, which harmed them and everyone around them.
@mbta.bsky.social General Manager Phil Eng reports that a full-speed subway system is saving riders 40,000 hours every weekday - mass.streetsblog.org/2024/12/19/e...
Eng: Full-Speed Subway System Is Saving Riders 40,000 Hours Every Weekday - Streetsblog Massachusetts
At the final MBTA board of directors meeting of 2024 on Thursday morning, MBTA General Manager Phil Eng shared a striking statistic about his agency’s efforts to fix hundreds of slow zones since 2023....
mass.streetsblog.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Yes...said another way, delaying and deferring SOGR work for years cost riders millions of hours, and pushed many to driving, which harmed them and everyone around them.
LET'S GO!
Your train experience is about to get smoother and safer with better on-time performance. For the first time in 15 years, Automatic Train Operation will return. Click this link to know when and where: wmata.com/about/news/M... #wmata
December 12, 2024 at 7:04 PM
LET'S GO!
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Exciting improvements for our customers! Starting Sun., Dec. 15, we're increasing service on the Green & Yellow lines & introducing 26 bus routes.
Details▶️: wmata.com/about/news/M... #wmata
Details▶️: wmata.com/about/news/M... #wmata
December 12, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Exciting improvements for our customers! Starting Sun., Dec. 15, we're increasing service on the Green & Yellow lines & introducing 26 bus routes.
Details▶️: wmata.com/about/news/M... #wmata
Details▶️: wmata.com/about/news/M... #wmata
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One hundred years + 8 days ago: On Monday, December 15, 1924, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover opened the two-day National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. We today are immersed in its legacies.
December 7, 2024 at 2:46 PM
One hundred years + 8 days ago: On Monday, December 15, 1924, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover opened the two-day National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. We today are immersed in its legacies.