New 7000 series Metro rail cars to debut on Red Line. New 7000 series Metro rail cars to debut on Red Line. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:36:35 GMT (1749033395981) Story Infinite Scroll ...

More commuters are getting a chance to ride Metro's new rail cars. Metro deployed the new 7000 series rail cars Monday morning on its Red Line, the system's busiest and longest line.

In all, five 7000-series cars out of 40 that were being used for passenger service had, in some way, not met the terms of the safety plan, he said. “We caught this,” Smith said.

Metro’s safety watchdog has approved a revised plan to return enough 7000-series rail cars to service to open the Silver Line extension to Washington Dulles International Airport by Thanksgiving.

Metro riders are left steaming again after a problem with the system's newest cars, the 7000 series.This time, the problem is with busted air conditioners that have passengers sweating.Metro says ...

Metro tweaks component on new 7000-series cars to stop power loss. ... As Metro works to improve rail-car reliability through a $5 million “Get Well” program for its legacy fleet, ...

WASHINGTON — More than a year after WMATA pulled all of its 7000-series train cars from its tracks, the transit agency finally has the go-ahead to put them back into service. For the last year ...

WMATA on Oct. 18 sidelined for the first time all of its 7000-series cars—built by Kawasaki Rail and comprising about 60% of the agency’s railcar fleet—to inspect wheel assemblies in connection with ...

WASHINGTON — Metro's Board of Directors unanimously passed an operating and capital budget on Thursday, but deferred a final decision whether to take advantage of an option to buy additional… ...