Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Demonstrators Remember Ethiopian Airlines Crash Victims

By Harrison McBride September 13, 2019

Demonstrators gathered for a vigil in honor of the victims of March’s Ethiopian Airlines crash, which took the life of Cedric Asiavugwa (LAW ’19), outside the Department of Transportation on Sept....

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The Federal Transit Administration has supervision of the D.C. Metro as of an Oct. 9 announcement from the Department of Transportation, making the subway system the first in the country to be under federal oversight.

Metro Under Federal Oversight

By Charlotte Allen October 16, 2015

The D.C. Metro is the first United States subway system to be placed under direct government supervision of the Federal Transit Administration due to lapses in safety regulations, U.S. Secretary of...

ANC Approves Changes To Wisconsin Avenue

By Esteban Garcia December 1, 2011

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E voted to approve the first phase of a District Department of Transportation project that would restrict traffic on Wisconsin Avenue to allow for widened sidewalks and...

DC Bridges in Need of Repair

By Sarah Patrick October 25, 2011

The District Department of Transportation will need to repair 215 D.C. area bridges in that were pronounced structurally deficient in a report by Transportation for America. The classification singles...

Streetcars Back in D.C.

By Neil Quinn October 15, 2010

A Metro stop in Georgetown may still be a pipe dream, but D.C. officials now have concrete plans to build something comparable: a line of electric streetcars with a stop on the Georgetown waterfront. The...

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