Evolution of the Washington Metro 1976-2040 (geographic map)
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- The history and the future of the Washington Metro in the Washington metropolitan area is shown in this animation.
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Error: 'Union Station' is labeled as 'Judiciary Square'. Judiciary Square on the east should've been labelled as Union Station.
Can you do the seoul metro 2021-2040 next?
As a DC native who traveled on the first section of METRO shortly after it opened, the mistake popped out at me as well.
In the future, the black line cold happen Going past Glenmont, Wheaton, Kensington, Grosvenor-Strathmore, Cabin John, Potomac, Great Falls, and Ending at Wiehle Reston East. Kensington Metro will connect to MARC, Cabin John located at MacArthur Blvd and 77th St, Potomac on Falls Rd and Democracy Blvd, and Great Falls on Walker Rd near Great Falls Elementary.
I know
Hey Metroliner, did you know they’re doing the 8000 cars on the metro?
I hope they do the Blue Loop extension, just because it will be fun having a line called the Bloop.
Hehe
I back this,
I'm officially a "Bloop Backer" and or "Bloop Believer"
also the fact that there is NO station in National Harbor is ridiculous. On another note, I hope they eventually extend either the Blue Line or Green Line into Southern Maryland. It'd be huge for the region.
Blooper Beltway
The bloop also includes a stop in Georgetown, one of the most congested neighborhoods in the city. We should have had a stop in Georgetown decades ago.
Hey this would be cool idea with a interconnected transit system like 10s of thousands of stations and lines and you make a compilation of that you make up lines year just something fun what do you think? Your really good at your videos :)
You mean putting every city on one map?
@@stevenroshni1228 kinda
@@stevenroshni1228 why not smth different
Let’s get him to do it :)
Farragut West and North are not and have never been transfer stations, so not sure why you've marked them as such.
They aren’t connected physically but if you transfer externally I believe it is counted as 1 journey
@@azan-183 Current. There is no extra payment if you transfer from North to West even though you have to physically leave one station to end the other.
Yellow line and part of Silver line are useless AF 😂
By US standards it's super impressive how much infrastructure the DC area has been able to build in the past 50 years, especially considering it's all heavy rail so far.
The irony ofc is that the politicians in DC fund this because they want the benefits of this infrastructure for themselves but nationally they rarely want to help move projects like this along.
One of the main reasons I chose to move here. It’s one of the only cities in the U.S. that has actually moved the right direction in transportation these past few decades. Almost all other cities have been foolishly building more roads and more lanes, failing to solve any problems and making existing problems worse.
@@glennsutter9533 ehhh idk. Virginia is doing some weird stuff with highways constantly expanding them. To make it worse a lot of times they don't even expand them at the chokepoint, just to the chokepoint.
Its the Capital afterall
@@louiszhang3050 Well, that’s Virginia for ya, lol. We Washingtonians don’t claim them.
One of the defining features of the DC metro is that, unlike the NYC subway, it has never really stopped growing. This means that it still retains the institutional knowledge of how to efficiently build a new line, something that NY doesn’t have. This is part of why the per-mile cost of the silver line was so much cheaper than the 2nd Ave Subway.
Honestly I think the cost difference had more to do with the 2nd Ave Subway being 100% underground and most of the Silver Line being above ground. Tunneling is very expensive.
@@PaulClipMaster Second Avenue subway was completely underground while the Silver Line extension had very small tunnel sections and is largely elevated or at surface level probably played a bigger role in the latter being cheaper
Don’t forget about all of the contracting that makes there be a lot of middle men who are all trying to make a profit instead of the city directly paying for their own construction work
To be fair, the battle between D.C, Virginia, and Maryland governments on how to pay and build has sometimes been just as nightmarish or worse. Not directly related to the money aspect of your comment, but I'm not sure which of those battles turn into big delays into 'who pays for what and how much, where to put what and when' debates/delays. @@scottydude456
Yea, NYC is only good at destroying elevated lines.
Washington’s Metro is interesting and unlike the original legacy metros of the US (Boston, New York, Philly, and Chicago, all dating from around the turn of the 20th century) in that it serves the function of both an inner-city rapid transit •and• commuter suburban network with one system. Unlike in those other cities where the vast majority of metro service exists within the central city while suburbs are served by a commuter rail network, about 2/3 of Washington’s system serves the suburbs outside of the District. This is more similar to other systems built in the 1970s such as BART in the Bay Area (MARTA in Atlanta isn’t quite as suburban, in part perhaps due to the sheer distance that would be required for a commuter rail network in Atlanta).
That is largely due to Washington being smaller than NYC. Washingtons Metro's lines radiate out to about 15-25 kilometers away from the city core, but most are closer to the lower number (with the exception of the Silver Line, which reaches 40 kilometers away). In the NYC Subway, most lines reach about 20 kilometers away from the city core.
Even with the express services, the New York City Subway would simply take way too long to travel on, if it reached into the outer suburb. But because Washington is smaller, one can use the metro to serve both the inner and outer suburbs.
There still are commuter rail for further journey
so its like toronto
@@wasmic5z the closer comparison in terms of geography is Boston, which is 48sq miles of land in the city proper, compared to DC’s 61sq miles.
2/3’s of the T are within Boston city limits, whereas in DC 40% of stations are in the District, the rest are in either Maryland or Virginia.
New York’s MTA and Chicago’s CTA cover much larger areas and skew very heavily towards serving their principle cities while the suburbs are served by robust commuter networks (also true of Boston) somewhere in the middle geographically is Philadelphia, but that city also has a very built-out commuter rail system.
SF isn’t a perfect correlate either, as they have MUNI serving the city, which leaves BART as much more of a commuter system.
DC is really the truest hybrid system, and expansion projects are much more focused on building out that network in the suburban counties (the expansion to Dulles being a much-welcome addition to the service).
VRE and MARC are commuter rail for the DC area suburbs dummy.
Is anyone else vibing to the music??
Yes Its like I'm at Epcot
Very good choice. Too many YT videos have lousy stock music.
Baile Nómade (Migra Remix)
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@@iancypes5911 Another Disney World: Epoct or better Disney’s Animal Kingdom 😊
Since you mostly seem to be trying to portray service as it existed at the date shown, it would have been nice to show the station north of Grosvener as "White Flint," which it was for most of its existence until recently.
They (both the three municipalities and WMATA) really, REALLY want the Blue Line separation project because having three services in that east-west tunnel between Rosslyn and Stadium-Armory (irrespective pandemic and ridership) is a major burden for WMATA. I would be over the moon if they do that.
I don’t understand why after Georgetown the tunnel stays so close to the existing orange/silver tunnel. It should head north toward woodley park and meet the green line at U St then come south to union station
@@Plaspos if i remember correctly the topography had a role in forcing wmata to make that decision along with how expensive the blue line project is to begin with (plus DC is kinda broke rn so here’s to hoping they even build it anytime in the first place)
The Purple Line will definitely be cool, but it will not be part of Metro, just connected to it.
Than what is it going to be?
@@dvferyance it is a Maryland Transit Authority project, financed and run by a different agency, but will likely be included on maps and use the same card for the sake of convenience.
@@Scrublord30 That's going to be confusing.
@@dvferyance personally, I think that should have been called the Silver Line, and the line to Dulles should have been the Purple line...
@@dvferyance The fact that they'll be included and use the same card makes it not confusing.
YES! As a DC area person, from the Silver Line suburbs in Reston, this makes me VERY happy. DMV 4eva
Incidentally, Farragut North on the Red Line isn't quite a transfer station to Farragut West on the Orange/Blue/Silver lines, as you have to go to the surface and walk. But since 2011 Metro allows you to pay no extra fare for the transfer.
Also - you poor bastard, Metro JUST cut Yellow Line service north of Mt Vernon Square, probably while you were finishing the video. Ouch!
@@praxyi5926This is the 70s we are talking about. A lot of things from the 70s should have stayed in the 70s, and this kind of really large trains, regional metro, this new kind of American subway was birthed, because metro systems needed to reach much further out to serve people, the ‘9-5’ person if you will. To be fair, it probably was easier to make a regional metro than further build out what was then a massively declining industry, passenger rail. It likely would have necessitated a lot of branches, because the line either a) didn’t exist at all, especially if didn’t connect to someplace important back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, like Manassas, and b) if there was a line, it probably got ripped up for development reasons, which sounds silly now. New stations, especially mass transit stations are big drivers of development
I thought so bc I have been taking the green line at ft totten since last fall and I was like "wtf I didn't know that"
What you described is a type of transfer typically known as a digital transfer - it pretends that you didn't have to go through the fare gate again for that transfer without building any physical infrastructure to facilitate that transfer. It's basically the least effort thing you can do that still somewhat incentivises chaining trips through the two lines. Typically they'll be indicated on maps with a slightly altered version of whatever symbol is used for normal transfers.
I don't know how you completely missed Union Station as a station on the red line, but you did. It's been there since the start!
I noticed that as well!
Oh lol, it's actually there, but it was accidentally mislabeled as Judiciary Square, you can see two Judiciary squares in a row, one of which should be Union station
How do you keep finding such BANGERS to go with your videos? Great work as always!
To be more specific and to clear any confusion anyone may have. The purple line is a MDOT (MTA) light rail line. It connect to Metrorail stations but is not a WMATA project.
You have Union Station labeled as Judiciary Square.
its judiciary square
I like those odds
Yay the Leagend is back
I think you labeled Union Station as Judiciary Square in the map.
Much Needed Expansions:
Blue/Silver - East to PGCC, Upper Marlboro, and Mitchellville/Six Flags
Orange - East to Lanham, Glenn Dale, and Bowie
Green/Yellow - East to Beltsville and Laurel.
I'd rather see Orange - West to GMU, which would pick up a ton of college students.
@@robmarney actually that would make so much sense. i dont know why there isnt a closer station to there
Bowie desperately needs metro service imo. Also, I would really love service to Laurel too lol.
I was always told that Laurel was too "unstable" to get a station.
2:45 - Interesting, I didn't realize they opened the Green Line in sections like this, before everything was connected!
I hope they continue expanding the system quickly, and eventually get another crossing of the Potomac River
I moved to DC in 2006 and never realized that the following years were just a temporary lull in expansion. Somehow, I thought the entire system was built in the 70s and 80s and the Silver Line was the first major expansion in decades. Hope the bloop gets approved and built soon.
Other than that, the question is whether we need more metro or more of an S-Bahn type of frequent express commuter rail that moves tons of people in and out of the city efficiently. The Silver and Red lines seem to be too long for metro infrastructure with a third rail and the farther reached would probably be better served with overhead lines and faster, higher capacity trains.
It wasn't all built back then, but the system up to 2001 was mostly *planned* back in the 70s. There were some changes, particularly in the Green Line and the southern end of the Yellow Line, but what was built up to that point was basically the realization of the "101-mile system" that was drawn up by the opening of the first stations in 1976. Everything since then has been later-planned expansion. The Silver Line was the first line that had not been in the 101-mile system at all.
Truly the GOAT metro system I can't wait for the purple line (though it is technically under the purview of MTA, not WMATA) even if it's been postponed AGAIN to 2027
Great video! Only nitpick: try to have the labels for the changes not cross on the coloured lines if possible? Ex: at 3:11 I feel ike you could have nudged the text more to the right to avoid being right on top of the red line and the Brookland station.
Thank you for the feedback! The station labels are always so tricky to keep neat. I'm still figuring out what to do with them!
Metroliner, you should change Mount Fort into Fort Totten
They should extend the Green Line to Laurel -> Columbia, and Orange Line to Bowie -> BWI.
The MARC will get you to BWI, which is not part of the Washington DC metro area.
@@Michael-js6gp yea that's true but the MARC stops running around 9pm most days (sometimes even earlier). it's not as accessible/reliable as the metro
Incredible to see that even in the hypothetical expanded metro 40 years in the future they still haven’t done a thing in that space between the blue and orange line
you missed the yellow line closure for the past 2 years 😅 but otherwise great work!
the yellow line is back now
@@jessepijones it doesn't go north of Mt Vernon anymore
I see you have the station icons a black stroke. I actually like this change and it also makes it easier to show transfer stations this way.
I’m not sure if the blue line will take the circular route in the future. I think something more practical is a new downtown tunnel that through Georgetown and goes east until about where the blue, orange, and silver lines branch off on the eastern end.
Great video btw!
Based on the cost-benefit analysis 2 years ago, the Blue Line to the National Harbor seemed most plausible. The WMATA hasn't announced much since so we are yet to find out!
@@MetroLiner hello!
Awesome video! I have a question, why didn't you show the rush hour Green Line Services from West Hyattsville to Farragut North during the 90's but you showed the Rush+ services? Also BTW, you put Judiciary Square over Union Station on the Red Line
Beautiful video, would love to see the stub line at the Pentagon station be utilized for a new line under Columbia Pike to Bailey's crossroads and Annandale as originally planned in the 70s
great video, but I'm pretty sure you mislabeled union station as judiciary square
You beat me to pointing that out! 😉
I hope they extend the purple line to overlay the beltway
They could also extend it all the way down to Georgetown. In fact there is an old freight train right of way that goes straight down there. Of course, some very wealthy NIMBYs would have a cow over that, just like the way the folks in Chevy Chase fought tooth and nail against the purple line.
I love the quality and information in these videos, it's just glorious
The Purple Line is not part of the Metro officially, but will be run by MTA in Maryland. I hope they do have something along the Beltway that is run by Metro some day.
Washington Metro 🇺🇸
Red Line 1976
Blue Line 1977
Orange Line 1978
Yellow Line 1983
Green Line 1991
Silver Line 2014
Purple Line (Light Rail) 2026
Amazing video! Copenhagen Metro, S-train, Kystbanen and future light rail could be amazing!!
Washington DC metro system could still expand with more new lines and stations. As Washington DC is still the Capital City of the USA.
Cool vid. Nit-picking, considering "evolution" there could've been station name history, like North Bethesda originally being White Flint, Downtown Largo originally being Largo Town Center, etc. Also, the Judiciary Square on the right should be known as Union Station & the Yellow Line's current update as it has been shortened to operate between Mount Vernon Square & Huntington (which started before Potomac Yard's opening).
We need the orange line to continue extending west
And blue down south
Could you do Warsaw next?
I would like to see it too. However the video would be 30% of existing network and rest would be showing planned lines.
Just what kind of crack were those planners on when they thought “one direction one color” was a good idea???
It was an odd choice indeed! I wonder what the reason behind it was.
@@MetroLinerThe reason is that WMATA (the transit agency) assumed people are idiots and wanted to get them used to the interlining of blue and orange of the new system.
@@MetroLiner hi I have a video idea imagine this if there was a video about a interconnected transit system every system in the world is connected every line and station all with one card and you could make up extensions just something fun your vids are good
You need to take down metrocucumber
Well it was DC in the 1980s. Just look at Mayor Barry from back then
@@iancypes5911 We here all that that marionberries were a joke when maironberrey jam hit the stores here during Ex-mayor-for-life Barry's third term of office.
If they do make the blue line into a circular route, I propose we start colloquially calling it the bloop (blue loop).
Hell will freeze over before Georgetown agrees to have a Metro station installed there.
I really do hope they extend it to national harbor
We have an incorrect station name. Judiciary square does not have two stations.
Music is amazing
Baile Nómade (Migra Remix)
@@lunik1983 Gracias
Actually, Service to Potomac Yard-VT It’s beginning Next Friday, May 19
The Blue Line Loop is quite interesting by the simple fact that Huntington station is literally on a cliff.
I do think the downside is that not more extensions are occurring within Maryland!... I could do for a 🔵 to Annapolis or 🟢 to Laurel (w/ Airport Shuttle to BWI)
At least DC managed to succeed where Baltimore failed
Well, the reason that there are not more extensions in MD is that MD is not growing nearly as much as Northern VA.
@@michaelimbesi2314 Not sure that is right because both are growing equally. It's more so that Maryland is putting in less money towards Metro expansion into the state than Virginia.
@@MarloSoBalJr as prideful of a marylander as I am, it’s true, and not because I just moved to Alexandria but statistically Alexandria and Arlington county as a whole is growing way more rapidly compared to Moco and PG mostly due to the fact that Nova leaders have actually fully committed to up zoning and continuing the already developed transit oriented communities while Moco has really stagnated over the years with Silver Spring and Bethesda losing big names like Capital One and Lockheed Martin while they continue the trend of sprawl and single family homes. Hopefully the purple line can revitalize MD but it hasn’t looked as good especially since the pandemic
What would you call the Purple line then? That's gonna be a huge game changer once its completed.
Also, while I absolutely want some sort of connection to Annapolis, it should be commuter rail, and not part of metro.
I’m not sure if it still exists post COVID but there was a shuttle to BWI from Greenbelt.
This got to be one of the strangest design of metro network.
First the shape of red line is just odd, why both ends are heading north.
Then, blue and orange lines, the overlapping parts are just too many.
And the yellow line's extention in 2006 is just nonsense for me, why not taking the green line instead.
Line 1 in Toronto is a pretty similar design, as do the blue line in Chicago so it’s not really that unusual.
Is it a certainty that WMATA wants to convert the blue line to a loop line, and hand off Largo and Franconia-Springfield to the Silver and Yellow lines, respectively?
Please, make a video about the Cologne metro line!! love your channel
That's my favorite DC Metro Map!
I thought the yellow line ends at Mount Vernon Square not Greenbelt
I remember, that U Street station had longest name in the system, as it also referred about the African-American Memorial.
cool video, could you make one on Kyiv next?
It would be interesting if only all rapid transit is included: Urban Rail, Rapid Tram etc. The metro did not have any extrnsion for a long time
It is on the channel Metro Cucumber
I did not know about the Blue Line Loop, is there a lot of people who need to get from one side of the river to the other? However, it does highlight a major weakness in the system’s design and that is commuting from one suburb to another. The system was mostly designed from getting people in the suburbs to the city. Also, a lot of what determined where the lines would go was the use of existing train track paths outside the city, especially in Maryland.
The Purple Line, not official Metro, is an attempt to address suburban travel. Would have been interesting to make a Beltway line I guess, but there’s a lot of expensive real estate it would cut through in Montgomery and Fairfax Counties. Still, would be more relevant going forward. The Beltway from Tyson’s to College Park is a parking lot during rush hour.
Who was vibin’ to the music
I think the sequel to Paris should be done...
The metro extensions made during the last 3 years (with the updating of the northern extension of the M14).
The future metro and RER extensions of 2023 and 2024-2026
Maybe the transilien lines (which are similar to the RER but in the terminal station it represents something like 1200km)
....and especially the "Grand Paris Express" which represents 200km of metro.
I like this video
Side note, I wouldn’t add the purple like since it’s a Maryland ran light rail and has nothing to do with WMATA.
In US have many metro in this channel (Chicago, New York, Washington,..)
You make a Ho Chi Minh City Metro pls ( all evolution, stations, lines i will update)
This was such a cool video! I wish y’all would’ve shown how Metro has changed some of the names of the stations.
For example, NoMa was New York Ave and Hyattesville Crossing was PG Plaza.
But otherwise, cool! A lot of these happened well before I was born so its cool to see the evolution
God I hope Columbia Pike gets a line one day….
Hey love your videos, can you do Rodalies network of Barcelona?
Future blue line looks like a gummy bear :D
I remember in fall 2013 that there was a station named Foggy Bottom DMU. I could be wrong though.
GWU is
I would love the silver line to go out past Ashburn (along highway 267, where it currently resides in the median of) and add one or two more stops, completing in Leesburg (a major small business hub of the northern Virginia area)
I’d also love to see a Silver Line Express, that runs from ashburn, skips the airport and stopping at every few stations until it hits Arlington, then stopping at every station through DC. The infrastructure and lines are already in place to do at least this second idea
Unfortunately just like the rest of the system they didn't build express lines that would allow some trains to skip stations and they didn't allocate any space to build an express line in the future, which means that taking the metro from Ashburn to D.C. takes at least an hour if not longer and that probably not gonna change anytime soon
How do you know what will happen in 2040
The DC Metro still has a lot of expansion left in it. Even with the Silver and Red Lines being as expansive as they are, there are still so many communities that would benefit heavily if the Orange, Green, and Yellow lines expanded farther to the East.
The most amazing thing to me is that the growth of the system up to 2001 was basically planned out in full prior to the opening of the first stations in 1976. There were some differences in detail--the course of the Green Line south of Anacostia was very controversial, and plans did change a bit there and elsewhere--but it was basically the originally planned system. There were maps that came out in '76 that showed nearly all of the 2001-era stations as empty white circles for future development.
This is my hometown thank you metrolinrr
The legend has returned with an Evolution video on the D.C. Metro
can you do the future of the Milan Metro? good video by the way
Thanks for doing my subway system! I enjoyed this.
Your videos are great, thanks for doing DC, also what is this song?
My favorite fact about the DC Metro is that one of the reasons people use it so much is that they specifically designed DC's streets to be confusing to navigate for potential invaders
Wha? DC is just about the easiest to navigate. Basic quadrants with Capitol Building at the origin. Streets climb alphabetically, first letters, then one-syllable names, then two syllables, etc.
I don't live anywhere near DC but after visiting they desperately need a station near the Tidal Basin. The walk to Foggy Bottom was very tiring.. 😭
Union Station on the red line is missing!
So long as it keeps expanding, the future looks bright!
Can you make Budapest metro next? 🥺
Am I the only one who increasingly thinks that there should be an agreement between DC’s Metro, the state of Maryland, Baltimore & the Maryland Transit Administration to literally help Baltimore out fiscally regarding that area’s system expansion? Something to which what little I’ve read appears to have long been delayed since easily the turn of the 1990s?
Because compared to DC, Baltimore could use just a little love… granted it’s less congested than DC & Philly, that could likely change from a regional perspective in the coming decades as Baltimore could have the potential to get out of its Rust Belt hole as I trust that SEVERAL MILLION Mid-Atlantic & Northeastern residents would likely desire a more affordable place to live “that’s close to family” or whatever as even more people get priced out of DC, NYC, among other coastal cities & regions inbetween.
Do Vancouver please! :)
I just purchased the sound track on Apple iTunes! The animation in this video isbrilliant. Thankfully there was no human narration. I think Washington DC Metro may be the best Domestic Metro system in USA. In North America, Canada’s Montreal Metro takes 1st place, Washington DC 2nd and then NYC’s Subway due to it’s expansive multi bourough network reach
For anyone else wondering, the song in the background is called: Baile Nómade - Migra Remix by Migra.
All the 15-minute city conspiracy theorists watching these videos like 👁👄👁 don't even realize that 15-minute cities already exist! 😂
I wish the Red Line would be extended from Shady Grove to Germantown and eventually Frederick.
The music is kind of House-ish and somewhat appropriate as Sam "The Man" Burns tried to put D.C. on the map for House music. The city just renamed part of a street for him. Thanks for the video, lots of people do not understand how the Metro grew and the politics of that growth.
Just picking the blue line loop when there are 5 proposals is weird. Why do people watch to connect national Harbor and Alexandria so badly. Alexandria is rich, metro should serve the working class.
Judiciary Square twice ?
One little nitpick:
There is no real transfer between Farrugat West and North. While you can do an out-of-station interchange, that's only been the case recently (I think 2018), so I dont feel its accurate to mark it as an interchange back in the 80's
We need some sort of line that connects the red to the silver/orange lines. Anyone familiar with the area knows the absolute hell that is the bridge between Maryland and Virginia on I-495. Sure you can in theory go first into DC, change lines, and take what you need but it ends up taking just as long as driving defeating the whole purpose of taking the metro
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Awesome video!❤
I left the DMV back in 2007 its crazy to see how much the metro has expanded since then.. silver line now goes out to Dulles airport?? What??
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Moved to DC in august and i love the metro! The blue loop would be cool lol also hoping the loop includes a stop at JBAB so i can literally never drive to work ever again lol
I’m looking forward to see the orange line extended further west past Vienna.
Can you please make
Denver
Phoenix
Salt Lake City
Asking for Tbilisi metro
I wanna see it run parallel to 29 all the way to Baltimore