Lines
There are five Washington Metro lines as of 2011. Each is named for a different color. A sixth line, the Silver Line, is under construction.
| Line name | Ridership (May 2010) |
Stations |
Termini |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Line | 277,741 (37%) | 27 | Shady Grove – Glenmont | |
| Orange Line | 187,663 (25%) | 26 | Vienna – New Carrollton | |
| Blue Line | 120,104 (16%) | 27 | Franconia-Springfield – Largo Town Center | |
| Green Line | 105,091 (14%) | 21 | Branch Ave – Greenbelt | |
| Yellow Line | 59,781 (8%) | 17 | Huntington – Fort Totten / Mt Vernon Sq | |
| Silver Line (planned) | Route 772 – Stadium–Armory |
Read more about this topic: List Of Washington Metro Stations
Famous quotes containing the word lines:
“Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
O then if in my lagging lines you miss”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.”
—John Hollander (b. 1929)
“It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)