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DC/MD/VA: Ten years in, Metro's Silver Line Phase 1 stations are picking up riders again
On this day 10 years ago, Metrorail arrived in Tysons and Reston, connecting two growing communities in Fairfax County to D.C. by train for the first time.
Decades in the making, the Silver Line’s Phase 1 launch on July 25, 2014 represented the D.C. region’s biggest rail expansion since the Green Line opened in 1991 and set the stage for a connection to Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County that came to fruition with Phase 2 on Nov. 15, 2022.
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As Greater Greater Washington reported at the six-year anniversary, those numbers turned out to be wildly optimistic even by 2019, when the stations were collectively averaging 16,709 weekday riders, according to WMATA data. Ridership was rising at all five stations — led by 7,934 riders at the Wiehle station — until the pandemic hit, prompting a summer-long shutdown of Silver Line service.
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While ridership remains below even 2014 levels, usage of the Silver Line Phase 1 stations has steadily increased since 2022, reaching an average of 7,405 weekday riders so far this year, as of July 17. ...............(more)
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/07/25/ten-years-in-metros-silver-line-phase-1-stations-are-still-picking-up-riders/