NoVaTransit Headlines for October 21, 2025
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

NovaTransit Headlines - 2025

Metro

WRC
What improvements should Metro make in the next 10 years?
Metro is looking at possibilities for its future, including an east-west rapid bus system with its own lanes.
DC News Now
Metro ridership drops as government shutdown drags on
Metro platforms have been sparsely sprinkled with passengers for weeks, a clear sign of the effects of the government shutdown rippling through the region’s transit system.
WTOP
Metro’s ‘BOLO Hunter’: Officer Kache Fields never forgets a face

If you’re wanted and a “Be On the Lookout” alert goes out for you, you better hope Officer Kache Fields isn’t the one who sees it.

Regional / State

FFXnow
Route 7 BRT planners welcome feedback at recent Culmore open house

NVTC's Vikram Sinha says planners are taking inspiration from Metroway, the Metro-operated BRT currently running between Arlington and Alexandria.

Mass Transit
Hampton Roads Transit looks to shift Newport News away from low-ridership bus routes
Hampton Roads Transit is working to expand its regional microtransit program in Newport News, where it has piloted an on demand rideshare program for the past year.

National / International

NPR
Should the bus be free? NYC looks to Kansas City for lessons
If you ask people in the Bronx what they think about making the bus free, you get a lot of versions of yes.
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