8/3/2019 A New Rush Hour Pattern
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Train pattern changeson Yellow, Orange,Blue lines coming
Metro riders who want to move between the FarragutNorth and
Farragut West stations no longer have to head to Metro Center
or
pay an additional fare to make the switch. As of noon Friday,
riders can move
between the two stations for free. Metro has dubbed it the
Farragut Cross-
ing; you just have to use a SmarTrip card and make the switch in
30 minutes
or less. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
In mid-2012, Metro will modify rush-hour service on the Orange,
Yellow
and Blue lines to accommodate the planned Dulles Silver Line and
adjust to
changing ridership patterns. This is where the adjustments will
occur:
SOURCE: WAMATA
GRAPHIC: THE WASHINGTON POST
After several years of study, the
transit authority has decided how
it wants to rearrange the Metro-rail trains. Now Metros task is
to
explain this new rush-hour service
so people can take advantage of it,
or at least avoid getting lost.
Metrorail commuters develop hab-
its. They dont need to look at a map
for directions. They dont need
to pull out their earbuds to hear
announcements. They know where
to stand on the platform to board
the rail car thats going to wind
up closest to the station escalator
thats closest to their office.
Why mess with that?
Three reasons: Ridership on
the eastern side of downtown is
growing faster than on the west-
ern side. Rush-hour trains enter-
ing the Rosslyn tunnel f rom Vir-
ginia into the District are jammed.
The tunnel is handling the maxi-
mum number of trains, and in twoyears, Metro will need to find a
way
to squeeze in trains coming down
the new Silver Line.
Metro estimates that some-
where between 20 and 33 percent
of Blue Line riders will shift to Yel-
low Line trains.
Overall, Metro officials say, the
changes are going to help a lot more
riders than they hurt. The staffs
rough estimate is that 108,000
riders will benefit from service
increases and time savings. That
accounts for 43 percent of the trips
made at peak periods.
Orange Line riders in North-ern Virginia who have to let
sev-
eral inbound trains pass them by
in the morning before they find
space to cram aboard should find
less crowding, thanks to three more
trains per hour at peak periods
from West Falls Church.
The transit staff estimates that
16,000 riders, or about 6 percent of
those traveling at peak periods, will
be inconvenienced. A third of the
Blue Line trains will become Yel-
low Line trains at rush hour.
Thats not a problem for those
who board at the Franconia-Spring-
field terminal and make the shorttrip to Crystal City or the
Pentagon.
It is an issue for those who go on
to Rosslyn, Foggy Bottom or Far-
ragut West. There will be fewer Blue
Line trains at rush hour serving
the eastern side of the line. ROBERT
THOMSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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