Orderly Boarding Out the Window When You're Left Abandoned on Train Platform

But we don't have a lot of experience with regular nighttime work focused on one line. Metro managers think that they can move trains around the work zones without big delays during those later hours.

So far, we have few details about how this level of efficiency would be achieved. People going to events at Verizon Center will be among those who are very interested in the details.

Graham Rides Bus

D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), a Metro board member who has famously displayed a preference for auto travel, expounded on the glories of a new D.C. Circulator bus route during a board committee meeting.

The bus route, which connects Woodley Park and McPherson Square via Adams Morgan -- that is, via Ward 1 -- has been very successful since it began its run in April. Graham, a chief proponent of the program that created the route, boasted that it carried 57,000 passengers in May.

Graham counted himself among that number. "I think we're . . . attracting people, such as myself, quite frankly, who previously would drive, because now there's a route that's really helpful -- 57,000 riders, and Jim Graham was there!"

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