{"id":30940,"date":"2006-01-02T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2006-01-02T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T17:26:00","slug":"expanded-yellow-line-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/01\/expanded-yellow-line-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Yellow Line coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With less than four weeks to go before the Yellow Line is extended from Mt. Vernon Sq. to Fort Totten WMATA has started adding <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080516175818\/http:\/\/www.wmata.com\/about\/met_news\/story.cfm?ID=1050\">new maps and signs<\/a>, 5,000 of them, to the system. The new service begins December 31:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he Metro Board in April agreed to extend the Yellow Line from Mt. Vernon Sq\/7th Street-Convention Center to the Fort Totten Metrorail station during off-peak hours (weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., 7 p.m. to closing, and weekends) as part of the 18-month pilot. The District of Columbia will cover the $5.75 million cost of expanding service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By extending the Yellow Line to Fort Totten, passengers traveling beyond the Mt. Vernon Sq\/7th Street-Convention Center Metrorail station to the Shaw-Howard U, U St\/African-Amer Civil War Memorial\/Cardozo, Columbia Heights and Georgia Ave-Petworth Metrorail stations will have additional off-peak rail service. Weekday off-peak service between these locations, which is every 12 minutes, will operate every six minutes. On week nights after 7 p.m., and on the weekends when trains run every 15 to 20 minutes, trains will operate every 7 \u00bd to 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, in the early afternoons, late evenings, and weekends, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080516175818\/http:\/\/dc.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/washington_dcs_1.phtml\">Ben\u2019s Chili Bowl<\/a> is being served by twice as many trains. Perhaps the Yellow Line will start getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080516175818\/http:\/\/dc.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/yellow_line_i_d.phtml\">little more respect<\/a> now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This post originally appeared on Metroblogging DC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than four weeks to go before the Yellow Line is extended from Mt. 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