WASHINGTON (7News) — Metro Red Line passengers will begin getting rides on automatic trains starting Sunday, 15 years after the system was halted due to safety concerns following a deadly crash ...

Riders can expect delays Thursday morning along the Red Line following a signal problem outside the Farragut North Metro ...

WASHINGTON — Metro launched its Automatic Train Operations on the Red Line in December. According to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, things have gone well overall. During a WMSC ...

WASHINGTON — A Metro Red Line train came feet away from colliding head-on with another train after traveling in the wrong direction last summer, according to the Washington Metro Safety Commission.

Metro stopped using Automatic Train Operation (ATO) after a deadly Red Line accident on June 22, 2009, in which one train slammed into another, killing the train operator and eight passengers.

Metro officials previewed the return of automatic train operations on the Red Line during a demonstration on Dec. 3, 2024. Officials hope to bring back the 'autopilot' system for the first time in ...

In the case of the Red Line trains, Smith said 1960s’ technology was “reactivated” in 2025 or 2024.

Hundreds of people crowded onto Red Line Metro station platforms on Monday amid train delays and mechanical issues relating to the tracks and signals. Some frustrated riders took to social media ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A woman was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after she was rescued from underneath a Metro Red Line train on Saturday, according to D.C. fire officials ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — Trains on the Red Line were experiencing delays Saturday night after a train struck a person outside of the North Bethesda Metro Station, killing them ...

Metro has had about 220 station overruns on the Red Line since automation began on Dec. 15, according to the safety commission. That’s compared to 144 in all of 2023 for the entire Metrorail system.

The MBTA Red Line is free of slow zones for the first time in more than two decades, a milestone that speaks to the success of the agency’s ambitious track improvement program, officials said ...