Metro News Release
For immediate release: April 19, 2012
Metro releases Rush Plus video
First in series to explain new rush-hour service pattern to customers
Metro today released the first in a series of online videos to help customers better understand Rush+ service changes, which begin June 18, 2012.
The video is available on Metro's Rush+ landing page at wmata.com/rushplus.
Rush+ is enhanced rush hour service that will serve more customers, reduce crowding and provide new transfer-free travel opportunities. Rush+ will improve service for nearly 110,000 customers on the Green, Yellow, Blue and Orange lines.
- During peak periods, more than 46,000 Orange Line customers will benefit from six additional trains per hour – three in each direction – between Vienna and Largo Town Center. This will result in 18 percent more capacity on the line, or approximately 2,600 seats per hour.
- For 33,500 Blue and Yellow Line customers in Virginia, Rush+ will increase the share of Yellow Line trains, meaning more direct and faster access to downtown via the Yellow Line bridge. A smaller number (about 16,000) weekday peak-period customers who travel on Blue Line trains via Arlington Cemetery may experience a maximum of six-minutes additional waiting time for a train.
- Stations of the Green and Yellow lines from L'Enfant Plaza to Greenbelt will benefit from 18 additional trains during rush hour periods (six additional trains each peak hour, three in each direction). And for the first time, customers will be able to travel from Greenbelt to Franconia-Springfield without transferring. More than 28,000 customers will benefit from the change.
News release issued at 2:19 pm, April 19, 2012.