Guys I will tell you all the end points of each metro, the red line goes from Glenmont to Shady Grove, the orange line goes from Vienna to New Carrollton, the Yellow line goes from Fort Totten to Huntington, the green line goes fron Greenbelt to Branch Avenue, the blue line goes from Franconia/Springfield to Largo Town Center, and the silver line goes from Largo Town Center to Wiehle-Reston East.
This was the most helpful guide I have ever saw you really helped eased mind about how to navigate through the metro. I will be attending George Washington university next month and will be interning in DC for the summer Im so exciting now that I know how to ride the metro!!! Thank you!!!
DC metro is quick, clean, and efficient. It does break! I can't wait until they extend the Silver and Purple lines. I would change the system to a flat price fare, more people would ride it!
ty so much. I spontaniously sprung out a "road trip!" to dc in a week and i know, without even investigating, that taking a car around the tourist areas would be dumb. I'm still a lil worried about using the metro but this made me feel better.
i miss DC. i lived in woodley park for a year while working for scripps-woward news service. i was like a block away from the red line. i'd wake up in the morning, throw on flip flops, shorts and a hoodie, grab a coffee and (if i wanted to) hopped on the red to see a friend as far away as the armory or as close as dupont. at $10 a week, it really wasn't bad.
This was great! I take the metro in LA, so I am somewhat familiar and there are many similarities. Thanks for pointing out the time travel and the two different fares. You guys did an awesome job (and how kind to help someone while filming-there's hope for humanity!)
Thank you so much! It's a little complicated, but with your information, it will be very easy for me when I'm there. I come from Paris in France, the price is simpler (1.5 € anywhere, anytime) but the map is much more complicated (300 stations, 15 lines, all the colors of the rainbow are used). Your video is in any case very nice.
Your video was exactly what I needed. I live in western Maryland and I went to a Nationals game last night - I found the Metro fun but confusion. The deal is that I may be transferred to the National Mall (park ranger) later this year and I'll be using the Metro everyday. Your very informative and fun video has been very helpful. Obviously you enjoy living in the DC area just as I am looking forward to enjoying working there. Thanks again, Mannie
I’m writing a comic where the subway is going to be playing a pretty big role. This is helpful because I’ve only ridden the metro once when I was 6, now I can get around the technical issues with the metro in the comic. :)
Not all sites are near Smithsonian station. The White House is by McPherson Square, the Capitol by Capitol South, the Lincoln Memorial a 10-minute walk from Foggy Bottom, the Air & Space and Hirshhorn Museum near L'Enfant Plaza, American Indian near Federal Center SW, and many other sites are near Archives station. The map shows the closest stop to each. Smithsonian would be the closest to the Washington Monument, Natural History Museum, Holocaust, Freer Gallery, Jefferson Memorial, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
yes, the metro is really convenient. I heard that some of the profit will go into the maintenance and development of phenomenal Smithsonian museum. If it is true then I will not complain any more cause those museum are free. I am from Seattle and just back from DC. I have to say I really love DC!!
thank you. I wish I would've watched your video when we went to DC a few months ago! We just took private tours which was very expensive...but we didn't know better. I tried to read the pocket guide but didn't get it.
Just on a note...get a paper pocket guide from the booth, which has a list of what stops are closest to various attractions. Also, a new rush hour service plan was recently implemented, so some orange line trains now go to Largo Town Center instead of New Carrolton, and some yellow line trains go between Franconia-Springfield and Greenbelt rather than Huntington and Fort Totten/Mt. Vernon Square. AND NEVER STAND ON THE LEFT OF THE ESCALATOR. You will piss of lots of locals. Like me.
thank you for sharing your time to explain how to navigate the metro rail system. the acquisition of a fair card will be the trickiest to obtain. I still have the old magnetic paper card from the 1980's! i am keeping it as a suvenior. so like to have you as a tour guide, are you available?
Do you have to buy a smart trip card? Are there machines for buying a one way fare rather than smart trip card (if you are probably just making the one journey during your time in DC?)
Thank you! But how do you find your metro? You just look for it? I know it sounds stupid but I am new to this and need to get to a metro in three minutes
Wow, girls, I really really appreciate your explanation!!!! amazing,, you and your friend did a great job!! Congratulations!!! A lot of foreigns like me need this useful information for travel by train. It's my first time here in Washington and it's a wonderful city, and whit charm girls like you gonna be much better. Bye.
DC makes it way too confusing. It's ridiculous. In NY you buy your metro card and pay $2.25 for wherever you're going. Leave it to the south to not have it together.
Garland Gay If the DC Metro had dedicated funding like New York, Boston, Atlanta, etc. They'd have a flat fare too, but DC, MD, and VA can't agree. BART has a distance based fare too. Baltimore's Charm City Circulators are free, unlike DCs and have about 4 routes serving mostly downtown.
Garland Gay Yes dumb ass DC is the south. Maryland was a slave state as was VA and Delaware. You're telling me all those SOUTHERN states surround DC which magically isn't southern? Yea, no. Not to mention the US Census currently lists all three states as SOUTHERN states. Abe Lincoln also sent troops to those southern territories fight in the war to end slavery. Have you ever heard of the mason dixon line? All states below the line are southern territories and the line is in-between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Again, is DC not SOUTH of Maryland, a southern state? Educate yourself before fucking you speak next time.
nylotus Ive lived in Maryland and I have also lived in true northen and southern states. While it is technically a souhtern state in that it is below the mason-dixon I have to say personally the state has an identity crisis. It acts like a northern state in many respects, i.e. taxes, gun control, but the people are less uptight and in a hurry. Therefore my position is that its a southern state with a northern disposition. In closing I'll say that to me the south begins with Virginia -- along the east coast anyway. btw maryland was a union state
When I worked in D.C. in the early and mid 1970s, there was no metro, just those damned MetroBusses. Some thought the streets were made of wood, because they were building the subway at the time. I don't know when they finally finished it. But about 30 years later I came back for a visit and the train is a lot quicker getting from Virginia to D.C. than those old metrobusses.
Nice! Now, I wish Metro employees were as nice, efficient and helpful to out of towners like me. I encountered a local who took the time to help me buy a ticket, unlike the rude, condescending employees, especially a Metro Center.
Puedo ir de Gaylord national hotel hasta national mall,? Ayuda necesito un guia para el otro año y no gastar mucho y conocer todo lo que pueda en Washington
That first station is grosvener metro!!!! I RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY!!!! Idk why watching this even though I live in dc area. I go to grosvener all the time lol.
Do the metro rails have screens inside to tell people when to get off. I have low vision and am scared I will end up god knows where because I can't realize my stop by reading signs on the outside.
They call the station names out. I'm not from DC but have watched enough of these to get how it works. So just listen for your station......I plan on moving there soon so now I won't look like a tourist
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That what happens when there is no dedicated funding, fares are based on distance. Don't even think about riding it on the weekends, the single tracking will piss you off. Better to drive downtown and park in a garage and pay 12 dollars.
Hello, I am new in Metrol, I am reside in Columbia Maryland I like to get to Navy Yard to commute to work, How do I ride from Columbia to Navy yard, please helop asap
