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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.
Actual map of the Washington Metro. Map of the network is drawn to scale. Since opening in 1976, the Metro network has grown to include six lines, 98 stations, and 129 miles (208 km) of route. [78] The rail network is designed according to a spoke–hub distribution paradigm, with rail lines running between downtown Washington and its nearby ...
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 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
Washington Metro system map. The Orange Line is one of the six rapid transit lines of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 26 stations in Fairfax County and Arlington in Northern Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Orange Line runs from Vienna in Virginia to New Carrollton in Maryland.
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 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 ]
The Convention Center–Southwest Waterfront Line, designated as Route 74, is a daily bus route that is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Walter E. Washington Convention Center (6th Street & Massachusetts Avenue NW) and Buzzard Point (2nd & R Streets SW) via 7th Street NW/SW. The line operates every 30 ...