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2. Washington Metro - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

3. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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   Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact; Long title: An Act to grant the consent of Congress for the States of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact to establish an organization empowered to provide transit facilities in the National Capital Region and for other purposes and to enact said amendment ...

4. Silver Line (Washington Metro) - Wikipedia

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   Local residents and officials had talked of a Metro extension to Dulles since the Washington Metro began service in 1976, [12] but significant planning did not begin until 2000. The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project "scoping" process began in April 2000 with a series of meetings with local and federal officials, designed to collect the ...

5. Transportation in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   Metrobus is a bus service operated by Metro, consisting of 176 bus lines serving 12,301 stops, including 3,133 bus shelters and nearly every Washington Metro station. In fiscal year 2006, Metrobus provided 131 million trips, 39% of all Washington Metro trips. [14] It serves D.C. and the inner ring of suburban counties.

6. Blue Line (Washington Metro) - Wikipedia

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   Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955, which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of 1980. [2] In 1959, the study's final report included two rapid transit lines that anticipated downtown Washington subways. [3]

7. List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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   WMATA New Flyer XN40 running on the 32 route in the "Local" scheme. An Orion VII CNG in the "MetroExtra" scheme in Washington DC Route S4 in Washington DC. This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus in Washington, D.C.

8. Green Line (Washington Metro) - Wikipedia

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   The Green Line runs from Branch Avenue to Greenbelt, connecting the southeast suburbs to the northeast suburbs through downtown Washington, DC. It was the last line in the original Metro plan to be constructed, with service beginning in 1991, and is one of three north–south lines through the city of Washington.

9. List of Washington Metro stations - Wikipedia

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   Construction began in 1969, and in 1976 the first section of the Metro system opened along the Red Line between the Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue stations in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, more stations were opened in the city and the suburban communities of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and Fairfax County ...