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The new Governance Committee of the WMATA board, which at the time was chaired by Mary Hynes, [48] [49] [50] held its first meeting and established a work plan [51] to develop a new relationship between the board and WMATA management. The committee will draft new bylaws that will better define the role and term of the WMATA Board Chairman.
At that time, Metro announced that it would reduce its service hours from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on weekends beginning on March 16 to accommodate for train cleaning and additional track work. [63] As of 2022, pre-COVID service hours have been restored with pre-2016 Sunday service hours. [64]
The system provides real-time information on next train arrivals, delayed trains, emergency announcements, and related information. [12] Metro also provides current train and related information to customers with conventional web browsers, as well as users of smartphones and other mobile devices. [13]
[50] [51] WMATA requires an additional 90 days for testing and training. [52] The system then underwent 90 days of testing and staff training. This suggested, at the time, that the line could open as early as July 4, 2014. [53] On May 27, 2014, WMATA was handed over control of the line, with service to begin "within 90 days". [54]
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 [update] , the system has 98 active stations on six lines with 129 miles (208 km) of tracks.
I-95 and Metro would have run through the Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park, but the cancellation of I-95 through the District and out to the Beltway in 1974 meant that it was no longer necessary or appropriate to condemn an I-95-sized swath of parkland just for Metro. WMATA eventually selected a new route that skirted most of the park, and ...
Metro also tested eight-car trains on the Yellow and Blue lines in preparation for increased service during the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. [8] [9] However, by early 2010 riders began to lose faith in WMATA's "promise" to implement 100% eight-car trains. [10] In December 2010 those fears were confirmed and Metro delayed the plans ...
Huntington station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Huntington area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States (though its mailing address says Alexandria). The station was opened on December 17, 1983, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).