Metro making improvements, but they may be hard to spot
A ceiling here, a staircase there improve the riders’ experience, but the overall trend isn’t easy to track.
Dr. Gridlock: Canceled
The Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock, Robert Thomson, will be online to take all your questions about Metro, traffic throughout the region and other transportation issues.
Silver Line will irk some commuters by putting new rail trip between their bus routes
The new Metrorail option will add convenience for many, but for others, it subs out bus routes they like.
Wilson Bridge Half Marathon rescheduled for Sunday morning
The bridge’s travel lanes will be open, but there are other road closings.
Metro work to close some Orange, Blue Line stations
Buses will replace trains between Federal Triangle and Eastern Market.
Dr. Gridlock
The Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock, Robert Thomson, will be online to take all your questions about Metro, traffic throughout the region and other transportation issues.
Money changes everything: Fight over transportation priorities more important now
Should Virginia expand its travel network, or fix what’s busted first?
D.C. to ban traffic on bridge in Rock Creek Park
An erosion problem detected in 2010 has worsened. The closing is scheduled to last about six months.
Travel advice for Sunday’s Marine Corps Marathon
These tips should help runners, spectators and travelers simply trying to avoid the traffic congestion.
Busy weekend of events in D.C.
AIDS Walk and Howard University homecoming on Saturday, plus Sunday’s Marine Corps Marathon will cause traffic diversions.
Fight over Virginia transportation priorities takes on new importance
Old battles over which projects make sense contain a new element: The prospect of money to build them.
I-95 HOT lanes halfway done as Beltway counterpart approaches first anniversary
The two toll systems will eventually connect, but drivers’ experience with them will be somewhat different.
Unusually light weekend ahead for Metrorail work
The Orange Line is the only one of Metrorail’s five lines that is scheduled to be disrupted this weekend.
Cuccinelli plan focuses primarily on secondary roads
The plan may have emerged late in the gubernatorial campaign, but it’s got a long history.
D.C. asking public’s help in shaping long-range transportation plan
The program, called moveDC, is an effort to develop a transportation plan for the next three decades.
Dr. Gridlock
The Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock, Robert Thomson, will be online to take all your questions about Metro, traffic throughout the region and other transportation issues.
Digging up the root cause of D.C. area’s mysterious highway snarls
Commuters know where traffic is most likely to be bad. What many don’t know is why. We’ll try to find out.
Principles governing transit fares will be under stress as Metro, riders debate fare increases
Goals of fairness, customer satisfaction and efficiency all sound good, but sometimes conflict.
Work to begin on second ‘spot improvement’ for I-66
Funding issues have strung out the set of three highway widenings inside the Capital Beltway.
Robert Thomson is The Washington Post’s “Dr. Gridlock.” He answers travelers’ questions, listens to their complaints and shares their pain on the roads, trains and buses in the Washington region. In addition to his twice-weekly newspaper column, he writes for a daily blog on The Post’s Web site, engages readers in online chats and presents features about transportation issues on The Post’s Sunday commuter page.
Thomson has been a reporter and editor for 30 years in New York and Washington. He joined The Post in 1988 and worked on the D.C., Maryland and Virginia desks. In 1999, he became The Post’s transportation editor. When Ron Shaffer, founder of “Dr. Gridlock,” retired from The Post in 2006, Thomson took over the column. He enjoys getting out of the office, even to drive at rush hour.