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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission or WMATC is a regulatory agency established by the Washington Metropolitan Area Regulation Compact, an interstate compact established between the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, and consented to by Congress under Public Law 86–794 in 1960 [1] to regulate passenger common carriers operating ...
MetroAccess operates 365 days a year, providing door-to-door, shared rides reserved from one to seven days in advance. It is now the sixth-largest paratransit service in the United States with a fleet of more than 600 vehicles and more than 1,000 employees. WMATA staff determines eligibility to use the service in response to written applications.
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]
Pylon by the entrance to the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter station Passengers boarding a train at the Bethesda station Crossvault of the L'Enfant Plaza station Union Station, the busiest station in the system The longest continuous escalator in the western hemisphere, at the Wheaton station [5] Vaulted ceiling at Farragut West Largo Town Center station, one of the newest stations ...
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Originally scheduled to open in summer 1982, its opening was delayed due to both unavailability of new subway cars and the lack of a test track. [2] Construction of the station was complete by summer 1982, [3] and in September 1983 Metro announced the station would open that December as the new cars would be ready for service. [4]
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In 2020, WMATA received $4.1 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration for the purchase of electric buses and charging infrastructure. A Sierra Club report indicated that a pilot study with 14 electric buses was planned, and estimated that 50% electrification would reduce the WMATA fleet's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by more ...