Metro has created a senior managerial position to oversee the system’s problematic escalators and will speed up some repairs after reports of chronic maintenance deficiencies and faulty equipment.

Metro’s escalator performance has long been a sore spot for riders, with outages and closures for repairs being an everyday inconvenience for many. The long history and controversy of presidential ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) After both upward escalators failed at the south Dupont Circle Metro station during rush-hour Wednesday morning, a WMATA spokesman acknowledged 20 of the system's other escalators ...

For those of you Beltway-ites who wonder why WMATA unions are so painfully slow to fix Metro escalators, UnSuck DC’s Metro provides the explanation: According to a source intimately familiar with ...

When Metro escalators break, crowds form. We've all seen it happen. You exit the faregates, and then boom, a deluge of bodies swarm around the dead escalators. Nine times out of 10, Metro wants the ...

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 ...