Washington Metro: map, description, photos

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Washington Metro serves the capital of the United States, and its surrounding suburbs. The system is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), and since opening in 1976 has grown to five lines (one line under construction), 86 stations and 171.1 kilometers of track.

Fares vary by distance, time of day, as well as the type of the passenger's ticket. Tickets are maps of various denominations with a magnetic stripe of a single or recharged.
At a depth of 60 m below the surface is Forest Glen station on the Red Line - the deepest station in the subway system. It has no escalators for passengers pltatformu dovozyat speed elevators. Total ascent / descent to the platform takes 20 seconds.

Station Wheaton, next to Forest Glen station on the Red Line, has the longest escalator in the United States and in the Western Hemisphere - 70 meters.

Unofficial metro hub is located at the intersection of the busiest lines: red, orange and blue lines. The station has an appropriate name Metro Center, here is the main sales office Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The other five "base stations" with a large volume of passenger traffic: Gallery Place, L'Enfant Plaza, Union Station, Farragut North and Farragut West.

In order to provide the most comfortable process direct from station to station, metro Washington is studying the possibility of building pedestrian connections between nearby stations. For example, a 230-meter-long transition between the stations of Metro Center and Gallery Place will allow passengers to transfer between exercise orange, blue, yellow and green lines. Another tunnel between Farragut North and Farragut West allows you to quickly move between red, orange and blue lines and relieve the Metro Center station by 11%. System SmartRIP now realizes the possibility of transferring from one branch to another within the same trip.