Metro Service Enhancement

“RUSH+”

METRO SERVICE ENHANCEMENT

Metro is enhancing rush hour to serve more customers, reduce crowding and provide new transfer-free travel opportunities. It's all called Rush+ and it begins June 18, 2012.

Rush+ will improve service for nearly 110,000 customers on the Green, Yellow, Blue and Orange lines. Twenty-one stations will get more frequent service with six additional trains every hour of rush hour. Highlights include:

• During peak periods, more than 46,000 Orange Line customers will benefit from six additional trains per hour – three in each direction – between Vienna and Largo Town Center. This will result in 18 percent more capacity on the line, or approximately 2,600 seats per hour.

• For 33,500 Blue and Yellow Line customers in Virginia, Rush+ will increase the share of Yellow Line trains, meaning more direct and faster access to downtown via the Yellow Line bridge. A smaller number (about 16,000) weekday peak-period customers who travel on Blue Line trains via Arlington Cemetery will experience a maximum of six-minutes additional waiting time for a train.

• Stations of the Green and Yellow lines from L'Enfant Plaza to Greenbelt will benefit from 18 additional trains during rush hour periods (six additional trains each peak hour, three in each direction). And for the first time, you will be able to travel from Greenbelt to Franconia-Springfield without transferring. More than 28,000 customers will benefit from the change.

There are numerous tools for you to share with your organization and constituents about these changes:

• Download a PDF version of the new map.

On the map, trains that operate between Franconia-Springfield and Greenbelt are shown by extending the Yellow Line – with dashed lines to indicate "rush-hour only "– to both new endpoints. Regular Yellow Line service between Huntington and Mt. Vernon Sq/Fort Totten is reflected with a solid Yellow Line. Similarly, a dashed extension Orange Line has been added to the map between Stadium-Armory and Largo Town Center to reflect the new trains that will operate between Vienna and Largo Town Center.

• View a Rush+ video that will give you an overview of the service changes.

• Click on an interactive map to watch different videos on how Rush+ will affect your station.

We hope that this enhanced rush hour service will help improve the commutes of many in your organizations. Please forward this information along to others so that they can understand these changes and plan appropriately. Updated information will continue to be posted on Metro’s website (wmata.com/rushplus).

Have a wonderful day,

Lisa Schooley

External Relations 
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Email: lschooley@wmata.com 
Direct line: (202) 962-1754 

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Room 3E-11 (NEW location)
Washington DC 20001