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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.
WMATA approved plans for a 97.2-mile (156.4 km) regional system on March 1, 1968. The plan consisted of a core regional system, which included the original five Metro lines, as well as several future extensions, many of which were not constructed. [17] The first experimental Metro station was built above ground in May 1968 for a cost of $69,000.
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 ...
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority [ edit ] Formed in 1967 as an interstate compact between Maryland , Virginia, and the District of Columbia , the WMATA is a tri-jurisdictional government agency with a board composed of representatives from Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the United States Federal government that ...
Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. [2] There are 269 bus routes serving 11,129 stops, including 2,554 bus shelters. [2]
On September 2, 2022, WMATA announced they would return at least 20 7000-series trains back into service after updating its return-to-service plan over the summer. [119] By then, more 7000-series in the 7000-7499 range began returning to service with most slowly being reactivated.
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 ...
On November 21, 2024, WMATA approved its Better Bus Network Redesign, which began in 2022. Under the plan, all routes will be renamed with easier to understand route designations, and modify most of its existing routes with the goal of making the bus system easier to use, faster, and more reliable. Changes are expected to start on June 29, 2025.