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:
“His more memorable passages are as naturally bright as gleams of sunshine in misty weather. Nature furnishes him not only with words, but with stereotyped lines and sentences from her mint.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the “money touch,” but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“I struck the board, and cried, ‘No more,
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)