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Despite receiving federal stimulus dollars, Metrorail and Metrobus may still curtail their services. Metro’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget eliminates 22 stations with low ridership or are located close to other stations. Three of those stations are on the Red Line. They are Grosvenor-Strathmore, Judiciary Square and Cleveland Park. Turnbacks would return at the Silver Spring and […]

Due to reduced ridership and revenue during the pandemic, Metro has proposed drastic cuts, including eliminating weekend rail service and scheduling daily trains at 30 minute intervals, in its proposed Fiscal year 2022 budget. That budget, which is described as including “barebones service,” will be discussed Dec. 10 during a Finance Committee and full board […]

Forest Glen, Wheaton, and Glenmont Metro riders officially have a less annoying commute because the Silver Spring “turnback” is no more. County officials came out to the Wheaton Metro on Monday morning to celebrate the end of the Silver Spring Metro Red Line Turnback. Now, all redline trains will travel all the way to and […]

An annoyance for Metro commuters heading to Shady Grove ended in December. The same annoyance for commuters heading to Glenmont could stop after a March 28 vote of the transit system’s board. The annoyance is the “turnback.” In December, Metro ended the Grosvernor turnback in which half the trains heading north on the Red Line’s […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Transportation and Environment (T&E) Committee will host a town hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, focusing on service improvements to Metro. It takes place in the Silver Spring Civic Building at 1 Veterans Plaza. Representatives of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) will present an overview of a new […]

Councilmembers joined officials from @MontgomeryCoMD, @Rockville411, @MCDOTNow and @wmata, and Senator @ChrisVanHollen, to mark the end of Metro Red Line turnbacks at Grosvenor. #Metro #RedLine #Transportation #Transit #MoCo@tomhucker @MC_Council_Katz https://t.co/hD1EVunJtT pic.twitter.com/f1k8qaTxge — Montgomery Council (@MoCoCouncilMD) December 17, 2018 Montgomery County celebrated the end of Metro Red Line “turnbacks” during rush hour Monday. All rush hour […]

Red Line riders who need to get to the northernmost stops always have objected to the “Grosvenor turnbacks” — rush hour trains that stop at Grosvenor and turn around without continuing on to the White Flint, Twinbrook, Rockville and Shady Grove stations. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and Montgomery County reached a deal in […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra, Michael Goldman discusses when Metro will stop the practice of halting some outbound subway trains at the Grosvenor-Strathmore station. Goldman is a member of the Metro Board of Directors, and he recently addressed the Montgomery County Council about the Metro budget.