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With an average weekday ridership of 764,300, the Washington Metro is the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States behind the New York City Subway. [1] As of 2023, the system has 98 active stations on six lines with 129 miles (208 km) of tracks.
The Baltimore Metro SubwayLink is a rapid transit line serving Baltimore, Maryland, and its northwestern suburbs, operated by the Maryland Transit Administration. The segment in Downtown Baltimore is underground, while most of the line outside the central city is elevated or at surface grade. [ 2 ]
A Washington Metro station had been considered for Dulles since at least 1969. A 1971 engineering study suggested an underground station, with the top of the rail 28 feet (8.5 m) below a parking lot. [6] [7] Formal plans were not made until 2002, with the first phase of the project commencing in 2004.
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, [4] is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates the Metrobus service under the Metro name. [ 5 ]
Service on the Blue Line began on July 1, 1977, on 18 stations between National Airport in Crystal City and Stadium–Armory in Washington, the first link of the Metro to Virginia. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The line was extended by three stations to Addison Road on November 22, 1980. [ 17 ]
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (IATA: BWI, ICAO: KBWI), is located 31.7 mi (51.0 km) northeast of the city in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, south of Baltimore and is the busiest airport in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. BWI is notable for its variety of low-cost carriers, such as Southwest Airlines ...
Unofficial Washington Metro system map with the Dulles extension. While construction of Phase 1 to Wiehle–Reston East was under way, the funding and planning of Phase 2 through Dulles Airport continued. This included the adoption of a special taxing district by the Town of Herndon [69] and a public planning forum. [70]
Arlington (Major airport: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Recognized as a "central city" by the U.S. Census Bureau) Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants [ edit ]