Metro News Release

For immediate release: November 20, 2009

Metro expands credit card pilot program to additional parking location

Credit cards now accepted at Huntington parking garages

Customers who commute and park their vehicles at any of the three Huntington Metrorail station garages can now use a major credit card to pay for their parking fees. Newly installed credit card readers at both the Huntington Avenue and North Kings Road exits provide an in-lane credit card payment option for customers in addition to the SmarTrip® card.

Metro’s credit card pilot program now consists of seven parking facilities, including Anacostia, Franconia-Springfield, Largo Town Center, Vienna/Fairfax-GMU, Shady Grove and New Carrollton Metrorail stations. Each facility has one exit lane that accepts credit card or SmarTrip® card payments. Customers are able to use their Discover, Mastercard, Visa, American Express or Japanese Credit Bank cards at these locations.

Metro launched the credit card parking pilot program in April 2007 as a way to address customer concerns about the lack of payment alternatives at Metro parking facilities. Metro’s conversion to a “cashless” payment system in 2004 required customers to pay parking facility exit fees using a pre-loaded SmarTrip card only.

For more information about parking at Metro, visit http://www.wmata.com/rail/parking .


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Media contact for this news release: Bessy Guevara or Lisa Farbstein at 202-962-1051.
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News release issued at 11:52 am, November 20, 2009.