There are a lot of Union Stations in America—that's just what they were called when a bunch of railroads pooled their efforts in a central train depot. And D.C.'s own Union Station isn't the only one undergoing a master planning process, as cities look to their transit hubs for an alternative center of gravity within [...]

I wrote a cover story this week about Union Station: How much more it could be than it is, if all its component parts could work together more cohesively (and if hundreds of millions of dollars become available over the next five years). One of the pieces that's getting pushed out as others expand is [...]

Back in August, we learned what was under consideration for the H Street trolley's temporary connection to Union Station (after the initial idea, going through an underpass, fell through). Now, the District Department of Transportation has issued some sketches of their own, and they're a little different: The alternatives have narrowed to two, with stopping [...]

Union Station is a maze. It's worse than a maze—it's three dimensional. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten lost trying to find the ladies room, not to mention catch a train; pity the tourist coming there for the first time.
Part of the problem has been a lack of coherent signage. Right now, [...]

Today, the District Department of Transportation tweets, Megabus moves into Union Station's parking deck, as part of the plan to make the station into a multi-modal transportation hub. Right now, everybody fits, since the charter tour buses that also pick up and drop off passengers there are entering the winter slow season. But come spring, [...]

To help me understand what the "H Street Underpass" is for my story this week, Union Station Redevelopment Corporation president David Ball offered a tour of the gigantic space that might have temporarily housed the western end of the District's first streetcar line, had DDOT and Amtrak been able to come to an agreement.
The tunnel—accessible [...]

It sure is a beautiful vision: For years now, District officials have regaled citizens with tales of light rail from other coasts and countries. They’ve commissioned studies that depict streetcars as economic-development fairy dust, brightening every community that they touch. And now that the city has completed roadwork on H Street NE, the newly track-inlaid [...]

Upon second inspections, it appears that not only have spires fallen from the top of the National Cathedral, but a crack has appeared in the ceiling of Union Station, and the top of the Washington Monument has fractured as well. That means tectonic shifting has damaged icons of American religion, commerce, and government. What is [...]

I'm going into a lot more detail on this in my print column this week, but since the Post went ahead and mentioned what the District Department of Transportation is thinking about vis-a-vis the H Street line's terminus at Union Station—after it came to light that the original plan for running it straight underneath Amtrak's [...]

It's fair to say that Columbus Plaza, the sprawling semi-circle in front of Union Station, is the city's most embarrassingly neglected public space. The asphalt has mountainous ruts, bricks are falling out of the pavement, hunks of concrete are still serving as security barriers, pedestrians have worn dirt paths in the grass where there should [...]