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)
“Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us of being bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.”
—Simon Blackburn (b. 1944)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)