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WMATA provides rapid transit service under the Metrorail name, fixed-route bus service under the Metrobus brand, and paratransit service under the MetroAccess brand. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 239,741,800, or about 844,000 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. [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]
A Route: Metro Center to Shady Grove (Red) B Route: Metro Center to Glenmont (Red) C Route: Metro Center to Huntington via Arlington Cemetery (Orange, Blue, Yellow and Silver) D Route: Metro Center to New Carrollton (Orange, Blue and Silver) E Route: Gallery Place to Greenbelt (Yellow and Green) F Route: Gallery Place to Branch Avenue (Yellow ...
Internally, WMATA calls the Red Line the Shady Grove Route (A) and the Glenmont Route (B), which meet at Metro Center. [ 36 ] The Red Line needs 44 trains (10 eight-car trains and 34 six-car trains, consisting of 284 rail cars) to run at peak capacity.
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.
Internally, the Yellow Line in Virginia was called the "Huntington Route" (C) and the route through the District of Columbia and beyond to Greenbelt as the "Greenbelt Route" (E). The route's bridge over the Potomac River is called the L Route. [42] As of March 2018, all Yellow Line trains are required only to run 8-car trains. [43] [44]
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 ...
Innovation Center station (preliminary names Route 28, Herndon – Dulles East) [3] [4] is a Washington Metro station in Fairfax County, Virginia on the Silver Line.It is located adjacent to the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology at the intersection of the SR 267 and SR 28 in McNair, near the Fairfax / Loudoun county line.