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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]
Fares (effective 2024) range from $2.25 to $6.75, depending on the distance traveled during weekdays prior to 9:30 PM and $2.25 to $2.50 on weekends or after 9:30 PM on weekdays at the time of tapping in. Discounted fares from 50% to 100% are available for DC school children, [153] SNAP Recipients in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC, [154 ...
Fares and other revenue fund 57.6% of the Metro's daily operations while state and local governments fund the remaining 42.4%. Since the Metro's inception, the federal government has provided grants for 65% of the system's capital costs. [17] Metrorail is unusual among major public transportation systems in having no dedicated source of funding ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 00:33, 3 December 2013: 760 × 630 (67 KB): Rfc1394: Add Silver Line for 2014; drop orange-line rush hour extension; add 5 named stations to silver line; extend silver line to Largo Town Center; add 6 unfinished Silver Line stations; extend District of Columbia line slightly to keep silver line inside DC
The Metro opened in 1976 and currently has 98 stations across six lines covering 129 miles (208 km) of track. When measured by ridership, the Washington Metro is the second-largest rapid rail system in the United States and fifth-largest in North America.
After a set of speeches and announcements prior to opening, which were televised on local cable television station News Channel 8, and attended by the Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, Metro General Manager Richard Sarles, the entire Metro board of directors, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray, and other regional politicians, a ...
WMATA Orion V 9652 (now retired) at Greenbelt station in Prince George's County, Maryland, headed for New Carrollton. Route T17 was replaced by routes G12 & G14 on December 17, 2010. This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus.
It was the system's first infill station (i.e., a new station built between existing stations). [ 20 ] In November 2010, the WMATA authorized $37 million in capital improvements on the Red Line, a part of $212 million of work on the Red Line scheduled for 2010 to 2014.