Greenbelt station, end of the Green line on the Washington Metro
The Green Line of the Washington Metro consists of 21 subway stations from Greenbelt to Branch Ave. It starts in Prince George's County, Maryland, runs through the District of Columbia and exits back out into Prince George's County. This was the last line started and completed in the original Metrorail plan, and is the north-south line through Washington. It shares four stations in Washington with the Yellow Line.
History
Service on the Green Line began on May 11, 1991 on four stations between U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo and Gallery Pl-Chinatown, but was basically just the Yellow Line, as all trains were still Yellow Line trains running between U St and Huntington. The first real Green Line link opened on December 28, 1991, with three stations to Anacostia, and the Yellow Line above Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center was discontinued. The four station branch north of Fort Totten to Greenbelt opened on December 11, 1993. The mid-city line was completed on September 18, 1999 with two stations opening, and the last five stations south to Branch Ave opened on January 13, 2001, completing the system.
A short time after the branch north of Fort Totten opened, the Green Line Shortcut began as a six month experiment, allowing passengers to get on a train on the Green Line segment and travel as far as Farragut North on the Red Line without having to switch trains at Fort Totten. Due to its success, it was continued until the mid-city portion of the Green Line was completed.
List of stations, north to south
Greenbelt
College Park-U of Md
Prince George's Plaza
West Hyattsville
Fort Totten (Transfer station for the Red Line)
Georgia Ave-Petworth
Columbia Heights
U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo
Shaw-Howard Univ
Mt Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center (Yellow Line joins on same track)
Gallery Pl-Chinatown (Transfer station for the Red Line)
Archives-Navy Mem'l-Penn Quarter
L'Enfant Plaza (Transfer station for the Blue and Orange Lines, and Yellow Line diverges)
The S1, S2, and S4 Metrobus lines stop one block away at 16th and Euclid while the 14th Street bus lines stop one block to the east at 14th and Euclid.
GreenLine: The Parks Center is located four blocks southwest of the Columbia Heights Metrorail Station (GreenLine) and six blocks northwest of the U Street Metrorail Station (GreenLine).
Red Line: The Parks Center is located eight long blocks east of the Woodley Park/ Adams Morgan Metrorail Station (Red Line) and about ten blocks (up New Hampshire Avenue) from the Dupont Circle Metrorail Station (Red Line).
Budapest is a perfect example where the two more modern metrolines connect with buses and trams and also with two circular tram routes (one closer to and one further from the city centre) that allow travel between suburbs and also into the centre of the city by changing onto the metro.
Greenbelt station, the terminus of the Greenline on the WashingtonMetro, is a typical example of the entrance concourse of a metro station.
The WashingtonMetro in Washington, DC opened in 1976, as part of changing attitudes towards transportation in the United States, leading to subway systems in many cities that had done without.
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