Metro News Release

For immediate release: May 9, 2006

Metro mobilizes its Trip Planner feature

Riders can get travel itineraries on Web-enabled cell phones and PDAs

Metro customers can now use Web-enabled cell phones and other mobile devices such as Palm Pilots and Blackberrys to get travel itineraries from Metro’s popular Trip Planner.

The Trip Planner generates more than 29,000 itineraries a day. This popular feature on Metro’s Web site provides instant itineraries for trips on Metrorail, Metrobus and local bus and rail systems.

Since its introduction in 1999, the Trip Planner was designed to work best with the screen size, memory and bandwidth of home and office computers. In response to the growing prevalence of Web-enabled mobile devices, Metro has developed a new, streamlined version suitable for cell phones and other mobile devices with Web access.

After inputting their starting point and destination, users receive detailed travel itineraries letting them know what trains or buses to catch, transfer information, fares, travel times and walking directions.

To use the mobile Trip Planner, visit www.wmata.com/mobile on your mobile phone or PDA and select the “Plan Trip” option, or see http://www.wmata.com/mobileBlurb/default.cfm for more details.

News release issued on May 9, 2006.