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:
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)