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• Metro service information for Memorial Day
  Trains and buses will operate on a Sunday schedule. MetroAccess subscription trips will be cancelled.
  May 20, 2013, WMATA
   
• Metro weekend rebuilding work May 24-27
  Work on Red and Orange lines only. Four Orange Line stations and two Red Line stations will close.
  May 20, 2013, WMATA
   
• Ballston is the end of the Orange Line this weekend
  The Vienna, Dunn Loring, West Falls Church, and East Falls Church stations will all be closed from 10:00 p.m. Friday to system closing on Monday (Memorial Day).
  May 23, 2013, ARLnow
   
• D.C. budget scraps gas tax, impacts Circulator
  The D.C. Council approved its 2014 budget Wednesday, and the $12.1 billion budget includes a few transportation developments that could impact commuters.
  Mark Berman, May 23, 2013, Washington Post
   
• Final draft Silver Line Metrorail map for review
  Based on extensive customer feedback from the latest map revisions, we made some additional improvements to the map.
  May 23, 2013, PlanItMetro
   
• Only handful of Capital Bikeshare bikes stolen
  Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010, according to Capital Bikeshare officials.
  Kytja Weir, May 22, 2013, Examiner
   
• Capital Bikeshare members reduced driving 4.4 million miles per year
  According to a November 2012 survey of Capital Bikeshare members, released today, the average subscriber drove 198 miles less per year after joining the system.
  Tanya Snyder, May 22, 2013, dc.streetsblog.org
   
• Is the sharing economy skidding out?
   
• Bikeshare and better health go together
   
• The grandaddy of sprawl subsidies
   
• Amtrak bill would let trains go to the dogs
   
• GOP, Amtrak debate responsibility for long-distance train routes
   
• Potomac Yard Metro station delayed again
   
• Arlington exceeds AIRE 2012 Goal
   
• Memorial Day transit, transportation changes
   
• Bike to Work Day 2013, in infographics
   
• The business of bike sharing
   
• Two new Metro entrances coming to Pentagon City
   
• Capital Bikeshare sets new ridership record
   
• DC Taxi Commission suspends two drivers for alleged assault
   
• Pedestrian fatally struck in Wheaton
   
• Fight on Red Line train at Gallery Place, arrest made