Every day thousands of people ride Metro to and from Dulles airport, and many of them do something Metro is now encouraging them not to do - ride the escalator ...

This item has been updated to reflect a new witness account and comments from Metro, including the announcement that it will be doing a fresh inspection of all 588 of its escalators. It was originally ...

Cedric Watson peered from beneath his black Metro cap into the guts of an escalator at the Gallery Place Station. He pointed out one source of escalator shutdowns: safety switches triggered when ...

Metro managers froze plans to release findings of an investigation into chronic problems with escalators and elevators after unionized workers vowed yesterday to fight a key recommendation: replacing ...

Metro riders aren’t imagining it: The escalators have gotten worse, the transit agency acknowledges in a new report. Escalators have been breaking down more often — failing after an average of about ...

Commuters at the Foggy Bottom Metro station got to ride on a clean new escalator after enduring months of construction that forced many to wait in long lines only to climb the stalled stairs. “This is ...

The escalators at the Rossyln Metro stop on the Blue and Orange lines are out of order, disrupting morning commuter's plans and forcing many to walk up stairs. Lines of people could be seen backed up ...

It might be the biggest unwritten rule of Metro – when you're on the escalators, you stand to the right, and walk to the left. It's a message we holler at tourists and make memes about. But a ...