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The $6.8 billion 41.1-mile-long (66.1 km) Silver Line is Metro's largest expansion by route mileage since its inception in 1976. [2] [3] Trains run every 10 minutes during weekday rush hours, every 12 minutes during weekday off-peak hours and weekends, and every 15 minutes daily after 9:30pm. [4]
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]
Ten stations are termini (stations at the end of lines); several other non-terminus stations are used to short turn trains in regular service. [7] The busiest station in the system in 2023 was Metro Center, with more than 3.9 million passenger entries over the course of the year. [8]
Additionally, trains operated to Huntington between December 20, 2020, and January 3, 2021, due to a complete closure at Alexandria Rail Yard. Metro chose to do a total shutdown instead of single tracking because completing the same work with weekend single tracking could more than double the time for completion while providing severely limited ...
On June 22, 2009, at 5:03 p.m., a six-car train collided with and telescoped onto a stationary train between the Takoma and Fort Totten Metro stations. Eight passengers and a train operator were killed in the collision and at least 70 people were injured. It is the deadliest accident in the history of the Washington Metro. [32]
Orange Line service travels along the entirety of the K Route (from the terminus at Vienna/Fairfax-GMU to the C & K junction just south of Rosslyn), part of the C Route (from the C & K junction just south of Rosslyn to Metro Center), and the entire D Route (from Metro Center to New Carrollton). [33]
WMATA took all of its 7000-series trains out of service to investigate the derailment, reducing its feet by 60% and causing significant delays.
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 ...