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NoMa–Gallaudet U station is an elevated, island platformed station on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) Metro system. It is located on the same embankment as the Amtrak tracks into Union Station. It serves the Red Line, and is situated between Union Station and Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood stations. With an ...
By 1991, five rail lines were open: the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue Lines. The system, as originally planned, was completed in 2001 with the extension of the Green Line to Branch Avenue . In 2004, three stations were opened: an extension of the Blue Line to the Morgan Boulevard and Downtown Largo stations and the first infill station ...
Actual map of the Washington Metro. Map of the network is drawn to scale. Since opening in 1976, the Metro network has grown to include six lines, 98 stations, and 129 miles (208 km) of route. [78] The rail network is designed according to a spoke–hub distribution paradigm, with rail lines running between downtown Washington and its nearby ...
Benning Road station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., United States.The station was opened on November 22, 1980, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
Yellow Line train arriving at the Greenbelt station in Greenbelt, Maryland, the former northern terminus of the line along the Green Line in August 2022. In 2006, Metro board member Jim Graham and Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams proposed re-extending Yellow Line service to Fort Totten or even to Greenbelt. Their proposal did not ...
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA / w ə ˈ m ɑː t ə / 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 ...
The route continued in rapid transit plans until the formation of WMATA. With the formation of WMATA in October 1966, planning of the system shifted from federal hands to a regional body with representatives of Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Congressional route approval was no longer a key consideration. [6]
Make slight adjustment to Yellow Line Rush-Plus switch to Franconia-Springfield station to clarify that the train turns to the new routing starting from King Street station, not from Eisenhower Avenue Station. 17:59, 4 June 2012: 760 × 630 (63 KB) Rfc1394: Adjust "under construction" indicator so it's not butted up next to rush-hour legend