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Washington Metro rolling stock. The rolling stock of the Washington Metro system consists of 1,242 75-foot (22.86 m) cars that were acquired across seven orders. All cars operate as married pairs (consecutively numbered even-odd), with systems shared across the pair. The 7000-series cars, the system's newest, have an operator's cab in only one ...
The Washington metropolitan area is one of the most educated and affluent metropolitan areas in the U.S. [7] The metro area anchors the southern end of the densely populated Northeast megalopolis with an estimated total population of 6,304,975 as of 2023 estimates, [8] making it the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in the nation, [9] as ...
Bentley Crewe. Bentley Crewe, also named the Pyms Lane site after the street it is located on; is the headquarters and design and manufacturing centre of Bentley Motors Limited on the outskirts of Crewe, Cheshire, England. The site covers an area of 521,111 m 2 (5,609,190 sq ft), of which 166,930 m 2 (1,796,800 sq ft) is indoors.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA / wəˈmɑːtə / wə-MAH-tə), [3] commonly referred to as Metro, is a tri-jurisdictional public transit agency operates transit service in the Washington metropolitan area. WMATA provides rapid transit service under the Metrorail name, fixed-route bus service under the Metrobus brand ...
Construction began in 1969, and in 1976 the first section of the Metro system opened along the Red Line between the Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue stations in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, more stations were opened in the city and the suburban communities of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and Fairfax County ...
The Orange Line is one of the six rapid transit lines of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 26 stations in Fairfax County and Arlington in Northern Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Orange Line runs from Vienna in Virginia to New Carrollton in Maryland.
The Bentley Hunaudières is a concept car built by Bentley for the 1999 Geneva Salon International de l'Auto.It is powered by a Volkswagen 8.0-litre, naturally aspirated, WR16 engine adapted and modified by Bentley to generate 623 bhp (465 kW; 632 PS) of power at 6,000 rpm and 760 N⋅m (561 lb⋅ft) of torque at 4,000 rpm in conjunction with a five-speed manual transmission. [3]
A King County Metro bus operating on Route 212 in Eastgate, Bellevue. King County Metro, officially the King County Metro Transit Department and often shortened to Metro, is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle. It is the eighth-largest transit bus agency in the United States.