“Trains are now sharing a track on Metro’s red line between the Medical Center and Grosvenor stops,” a slightly disembodied, British female voice tells me. I’m listening to the Washington Post local section (WMATA coverage, what else) on the app Hear Your News. And while I’m not operating a motor vehicle, my attention is squarely directed towards my main task of the moment — writing this article. “Bridget” is just keeping me company.

You may recall that Hear Your News, the app that originally debuted in August 2015 as an answer to founder Francisco Martin-Rayo’s bad habit of reading the news while driving, launched a Kickstarter campaign in December hoping to raise some cash to add new voices and news sources to the app.

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