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Metro officials considered shifting construction funds from the southern Green Line to the northern Green Line in order to start construction on that end of the line, [9] but the D.C. City Council opposed this shift. [49] Metro held the court-ordered hearings in June 1982, at which Prince George's residents argued that they had voted for Metro ...
From 2010 to 2015, the Federal City Council remained largely quiet on issues facing Metro and DC Streetcar, however. [136] However, the organization did undertake a study of Metro in 2015 which led to a November 2016 report that called for a federal takeover of the transit agency if its three state-level partners did not agree to radically ...
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The original subway line was built in 1909 to link the Russell Senate Office Building to the Capitol. [1] In 1960, an operator-controlled monorail was installed for the Dirksen Senate Office Building. [2] A two-car subway line connecting the Rayburn House Office Building to the Capitol was built in 1965.
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]
As of 2023, it is the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States in average daily ridership after the New York City Subway [77] The record for daily ridership was 1.12 million on January 20, 2009, the day of Barack Obama's first Presidential Inauguration, followed by the Women's March on January 21, 2017, with 1,001,613 trips. [78]
"City of Washington" incorporated; mayor-council government established. [9] Jail built. [9] 1806 – Public school opens. [9] 1809 – May 20: Long Bridge crossing the Potomac River near 14th Street SW opens. [9] [12] 1814 – August 24: Burning of Washington by British forces. [13] 1815 – Washington City Canal begins operating. [7]
District of Columbia City Hall, also known as Old City Hall and the District of Columbia Courthouse, is a historic building at Judiciary Square in downtown Washington, D.C. facing Indiana Avenue. Originally built for the offices of the government of the District of Columbia, the District's courthouse was subsequently used as a Federal ...