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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, the system has 98 active stations on six lines with 129 miles (208 km) of tracks.
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8246-X. "Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact" (PDF). WMATA "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2021 and 2022" (PDF). WMATA
L'Enfant Plaza station (D & 7th Streets SW) Alabama Avenue SE; Good Hope Road SE; SW/SE Freeway; Discontinued on June 24, 2018. [20] V6 Minnesota Ave-M St Line: Deanwood station: ↔: Half & O Streets SW Minnesota Avenue NE/SE; M Street SE/SW; Discontinued in 1996 and replaced by routes 70, V7, V8, and V9. V7, V9 11th Street Bridge Line L ...
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 ]
Transit agency City/area served Annual ridership 2023 [1] Avg. ridership weekdays, Q3 2024 [2] System length Avg. boardings per mile weekdays, Q3 2024 Opened Stations Lines 1 New York City Subway: NYCTA [note 1] New York City: 2,027,286,000 5,955,000 248 mi (399 km) [3] 24,012 1904 [4] 472 [4] 26 [4] 2 Washington Metro: WMATA: Washington ...
Waterfront station (known as Waterfront–SEU from 1997 to 2011) is a Washington Metro station in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on December 28, 1991, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Waterfront is located in the Southwest Waterfront ...
The Little Black Book of Washington, DC: The Essential Guide to America's Capital. White Plains, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 2007. ISBN 1-59359-868-8; La Vigne, Nancy G. "Safe Transport: Security By Design on the Washington Metro." In Preventing Mass Transit Crime. Ronald V. Clarke, ed. Monsey, N.Y.: Criminal Justice Press, 2002. ISBN 1-881798-28-3
Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955, which attempted to forecast freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the region's needs projected for 1980. [8] In 1959, the study's final report included two rapid transit lines that anticipated downtown Washington subways. [9]