News4 was first to tell you about Metro’s plans to finalize the return of automatic operations of its trains. But a day later, the transit agency’s safety watchdog, the Washington Metrorail Safety ...

Metro is making final preparations to change the way it operates its trains. News4 has learned that a presentation to switch trains back to a computer-controlled automatic mode is on the Metro board ...

WASHINGTON — The future of Metro is automatic. WMATA is working to restore automatic train operation (ATO) throughout the Metro system, and it’s nearly ready. Metro announced just a few months ago ...

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has been testing automatic doors on trains in the Washington, D.C. area over the last three weeks as part of a plan to reintroduce automatic doors by ...

Metro's switch to automatic train operation (ATO) on the Red Line Sunday went well — aside from a few times in which trains went past the stations' platforms before stopping, a spokesperson for Metro ...

The transportation organization announced in a presentation on Monday that this would take the Red Line off manual human operation, and the rest of the lines would become automatic by the end of 2023.

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced on Thursday that automatic train operations (ATO) would begin on the Red Line on Dec. 15. for the first ...

From scheduled maintenance to security training exercises — and the surprise return of speedy automatic doors on the Red Line — here’s what will be impacting your Metro rides this weekend and in the ...

WASHINGTON — Metro riders may notice doors opening faster on some Red Line trains. Train operators who have been trained to use Metro's Auto Doors function are being certified this week. As you might ...

Automatic subway systems are no longer new technology as it may seem. Vancouver's automatic Skytrain is already twenty-three years old. The Victoria Line on the London Underground has used automatic ...

Metro trips are on track to get faster later this year. For the last two weeks, Metro has expanded testing of a return to automatic door opening to a handful of trains on all lines that have included ...