Perfection comes at a high price. Metro is paying more than $51 million for outside expertise in how to run the transit agency. The consultants are analyzing data, studying escalators, advising onSmarTrip farecards and even crafting requests for other outside contracts in the quest to keep the transit system running. …

Red light cameras make millions of dollars for DC, but according to the Washington Post, they also save lives. A study to be released Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that traffic fatalities at those intersections dropped by 26 percent over a five-year period, slightly more than …