Members of the public spoke out against Metro’s decision to start random bag inspections, with speaker after speaker condemning the initiative at a meeting held by the Metro Riders’ Advisory Council ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Washington's Metro police began randomly inspecting passengers' bags for the first time Tuesday at stations in Maryland and Virginia, a day after rights groups began an ...

Random bag searches are the topic of discussion tonight at a forum for Metro riders. With little prior announcement, Metro announced last month that it would begin mandatory, random inspections of its ...

Metro implemented its new bag search policy Tuesday morning at several stations in the system. Officers started randomly selecting commuters to search at 7:30 a.m. at the College Park Metro station.

Via the Post and Washington Business Journal, we learn that Metro Transit Police are gearing up to conduct random bag searches of Metro users. The searches, Lena Sun writes, will extend to “backpacks, ...

Metro commuters may be in for a dose of airport déjà-vu next time they board a train. LA County Sheriff’s have extended random bag searches from Metrolink stations to local Metro transit lines.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington's Metro police will start random inspections of passengers' bags at entrances to rail stations and bus bays, transit agency officials announced Thursday. The program is ...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority has not conducted random bag searches on its buses and trains and does not plan to do so, agency leaders said Thursday. The announcement came in response to fiery ...