My excuse for not participating in Bike to Work Day today is pretty good — I thought. From my apartment in Baltimore to downtown D.C., I’d be looking at a 50-mile ride, wh...

The people sitting at a bus stop are generally all headed in the same direction. That wasn’t the case with the handful of people sitting at the bus stop consolidation meetin...

  The ad that’s been turning Metro riders’ heads recently is a billboard for the Kindle. To promote its e-reader, Amazon chose an image of the first few paragraphs of...

Mayor Vincent Gray invited everyone aboard his time machine on Tuesday to check out a “Vision for a Sustainable D.C.” By the year 2032, if all goes according to this plan,...

My D.C. commemorative Mega Millions ticket wasn’t worth a cent, so I’m pinning my hopes on another lottery: the Metro survey. Through May 25, randomly selected riders at a...

If I seem more drowsy than usual, it’s because I haven’t been able to sleep on the MARC train for weeks. The culprit? Photographer Eddie Winter’s collection of images of...

Many people find riding the Metro challenging enough already, but Andrew Baker wanted to up the difficulty level. That’s why one day in November, the 23-year-old consultant ...

If seasonal allergies aren’t getting to you yet, I bet the seasonal tourists riding the Metro are. And Claritin can’t do anything about the hordes blocking entrance gates ...

My husband and I had talked about it for years. We knew it was something we’d probably do eventually, even though it might mean a big change in our lifestyle. All of our fri...

Be careful what you ask a comedian. That’s my advice based on the advice you’ll find doled out in the new book from The Believer magazine. Contributors including Amy Sedar...

The way Metro fares are calculated is completely confusing — apparently, even to Metro. Proof comes courtesy of reader Wayde Minami, who commutes from Greenbelt to the Smith...

Want to hop on a bus without paying the fare? Catch the new music video for “Route 42,” a hummable ode to public transportation by local singer-songwriter René Moffatt. A...

Fiddling with electronic devices while riding Metro is generally a bad idea — especially if you’d like to leave the transit system still in possession of said devices. But...

Coffee, I’ve learned, is a hot topic. After last week’s column on my encounter with a guy who wouldn’t stop sipping from his mug on Metro, I got emails, calls, tweets an...

It wasn’t one sip. I would have let that go. It was sip after sip after sip. So I turned to the guy sitting next to me downing his coffee on a Red Line train to Shady Grove,...