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,...

When people ask me how long the MARC train ride from Baltimore to Washington takes, I say an hour. But that’s only if I time it right. Let’s say I just miss the 8:10 a.m. ...

You probably thought the big event in Washington this week was the State of the Union address. But the real movers and shakers in town — or, at least, the movers — were at...

You know how riding Metro sometimes takes a little longer than planned? Em Hall does. The 32-year-old Washingtonian set out to visit every Metro station and ride every Metrobu...

If I could whistle, that’s probably what I would have been doing Tuesday morning when I swiped my SmarTrip card and noticed my January SmartBenefits had magically loaded on ...

A terrible John Cusack movie predicted the end of the world in 2012. I’m predicting something even more certain for the new year: the closure of the south entrance to the Du...

Between the burning candles on menorahs and the zillions of trees tricked out with strands of blinking lights, Washington’s all aglow this time of year. But when the holiday...

My reaction to the D.C. Taxicab Commission’s decision to approve a fare hike for 2012: yawn. That’s because my days of hailing — and hoping I have enough cash in my wall...

Santa travels by reindeer-driven sleigh, so what does he know about how real people get around? That’s why it’s up to you to figure out what to give friends on the go. Her...

I didn’t have plans to go out of town for Thanksgiving this year, but I knew where to find a lot of people who did: Union Station. A bigger crowd than ever was making a Wedn...

With Black Friday looming, everybody’s looking for a deal. But slashed prices for flat screens, video game consoles and cashmere mittens can’t compare to the best way to s...

The blog ARLnow posted a video Tuesday of a cyclist tooling down the Custis Trail in Arlington while playing with the Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots in his basket. My first thou...