Metro riders aren’t imagining it: The escalators have gotten worse, the transit agency acknowledges in a new report. Escalators have been breaking down more often — failing after an average of about ...

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 ...

Here is a caution for senior citizens and others suffering from arthritis. Whenever it rains heavily, it is not prudent for them to depend on the escalator below platform number two at Magadi Road ...

The replacement of the Bethesda Metro station escalators will not begin any earlier than planned, Metro says, despite Montgomery County officials’ pleas. County Council members asked Metro last month ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) – An escalator fire sent smoke into John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday, according to the FDNY. The fire broke out around 7 a.m., fire officials said. About 100 ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - BART is now required to do a better job of keeping its station elevators and escalators from breaking down - and keeping them clean. The legal order from a federal judge is part ...

An escalator at New York’s JFK International Airport caught fire, causing smoke to fill one of the terminals, according to FDNY. Firefighters arrived around 7 a.m. Wednesday after receiving reports of ...

The morning after the Bay Bridge was closed indefinitely for repairs, commuters wait in line to use the escalator at BART's Embarcadero Station on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 in San Francisco, Calif.Mike ...

I am writing to reinforce William T. Breer's Dec. 27 letter http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601441.html, "A little TLC would ...