Can you do the seoul metro 2021-2040 next?

As a DC native who traveled on the first section of METRO shortly after it opened, the mistake popped out at me as well.

In the future, the black line cold happen Going past Glenmont, Wheaton, Kensington, Grosvenor-Strathmore, Cabin John, Potomac, Great Falls, and Ending at Wiehle Reston East. Kensington Metro will connect to MARC, Cabin John located at MacArthur Blvd and 77th St, Potomac on Falls Rd and Democracy Blvd, and Great Falls on Walker Rd near Great Falls Elementary.

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Hey Metroliner, did you know they’re doing the 8000 cars on the metro?

Hehe

I back this, I'm officially a "Bloop Backer" and or "Bloop Believer"

also the fact that there is NO station in National Harbor is ridiculous. On another note, I hope they eventually extend either the Blue Line or Green Line into Southern Maryland. It'd be huge for the region.

Blooper Beltway

The bloop also includes a stop in Georgetown, one of the most congested neighborhoods in the city. We should have had a stop in Georgetown decades ago.

The irony ofc is that the politicians in DC fund this because they want the benefits of this infrastructure for themselves but nationally they rarely want to help move projects like this along.

One of the main reasons I chose to move here. It’s one of the only cities in the U.S. that has actually moved the right direction in transportation these past few decades. Almost all other cities have been foolishly building more roads and more lanes, failing to solve any problems and making existing problems worse.

​@@glennsutter9533 ehhh idk. Virginia is doing some weird stuff with highways constantly expanding them. To make it worse a lot of times they don't even expand them at the chokepoint, just to the chokepoint.

Its the Capital afterall

@@louiszhang3050 Well, that’s Virginia for ya, lol. We Washingtonians don’t claim them.

Honestly I think the cost difference had more to do with the 2nd Ave Subway being 100% underground and most of the Silver Line being above ground. Tunneling is very expensive.

@@PaulClipMaster Second Avenue subway was completely underground while the Silver Line extension had very small tunnel sections and is largely elevated or at surface level probably played a bigger role in the latter being cheaper

Don’t forget about all of the contracting that makes there be a lot of middle men who are all trying to make a profit instead of the city directly paying for their own construction work

To be fair, the battle between D.C, Virginia, and Maryland governments on how to pay and build has sometimes been just as nightmarish or worse. Not directly related to the money aspect of your comment, but I'm not sure which of those battles turn into big delays into 'who pays for what and how much, where to put what and when' debates/delays. @@scottydude456

Yea, NYC is only good at destroying elevated lines.

Yes Its like I'm at Epcot

Very good choice. Too many YT videos have lousy stock music.

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@@iancypes5911 Another Disney World: Epoct or better Disney’s Animal Kingdom 😊

That is largely due to Washington being smaller than NYC. Washingtons Metro's lines radiate out to about 15-25 kilometers away from the city core, but most are closer to the lower number (with the exception of the Silver Line, which reaches 40 kilometers away). In the NYC Subway, most lines reach about 20 kilometers away from the city core. Even with the express services, the New York City Subway would simply take way too long to travel on, if it reached into the outer suburb. But because Washington is smaller, one can use the metro to serve both the inner and outer suburbs.

There still are commuter rail for further journey

so its like toronto

@@wasmic5z the closer comparison in terms of geography is Boston, which is 48sq miles of land in the city proper, compared to DC’s 61sq miles. 2/3’s of the T are within Boston city limits, whereas in DC 40% of stations are in the District, the rest are in either Maryland or Virginia. New York’s MTA and Chicago’s CTA cover much larger areas and skew very heavily towards serving their principle cities while the suburbs are served by robust commuter networks (also true of Boston) somewhere in the middle geographically is Philadelphia, but that city also has a very built-out commuter rail system. SF isn’t a perfect correlate either, as they have MUNI serving the city, which leaves BART as much more of a commuter system. DC is really the truest hybrid system, and expansion projects are much more focused on building out that network in the suburban counties (the expansion to Dulles being a much-welcome addition to the service).

VRE and MARC are commuter rail for the DC area suburbs dummy.

@@praxyi5926This is the 70s we are talking about. A lot of things from the 70s should have stayed in the 70s, and this kind of really large trains, regional metro, this new kind of American subway was birthed, because metro systems needed to reach much further out to serve people, the ‘9-5’ person if you will. To be fair, it probably was easier to make a regional metro than further build out what was then a massively declining industry, passenger rail. It likely would have necessitated a lot of branches, because the line either a) didn’t exist at all, especially if didn’t connect to someplace important back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, like Manassas, and b) if there was a line, it probably got ripped up for development reasons, which sounds silly now. New stations, especially mass transit stations are big drivers of development

I thought so bc I have been taking the green line at ft totten since last fall and I was like "wtf I didn't know that"

What you described is a type of transfer typically known as a digital transfer - it pretends that you didn't have to go through the fare gate again for that transfer without building any physical infrastructure to facilitate that transfer. It's basically the least effort thing you can do that still somewhat incentivises chaining trips through the two lines. Typically they'll be indicated on maps with a slightly altered version of whatever symbol is used for normal transfers.

I don’t understand why after Georgetown the tunnel stays so close to the existing orange/silver tunnel. It should head north toward woodley park and meet the green line at U St then come south to union station

⁠​⁠@@Plaspos if i remember correctly the topography had a role in forcing wmata to make that decision along with how expensive the blue line project is to begin with (plus DC is kinda broke rn so here’s to hoping they even build it anytime in the first place)

Than what is it going to be?

@@dvferyance it is a Maryland Transit Authority project, financed and run by a different agency, but will likely be included on maps and use the same card for the sake of convenience.

@@Scrublord30 That's going to be confusing.

@@dvferyance personally, I think that should have been called the Silver Line, and the line to Dulles should have been the Purple line...

@@dvferyance The fact that they'll be included and use the same card makes it not confusing.

I noticed that as well!

Oh lol, it's actually there, but it was accidentally mislabeled as Judiciary Square, you can see two Judiciary squares in a row, one of which should be Union station

I'd rather see Orange - West to GMU, which would pick up a ton of college students.

@@robmarney actually that would make so much sense. i dont know why there isnt a closer station to there

Bowie desperately needs metro service imo. Also, I would really love service to Laurel too lol.

I was always told that Laurel was too "unstable" to get a station.

Based on the cost-benefit analysis 2 years ago, the Blue Line to the National Harbor seemed most plausible. The WMATA hasn't announced much since so we are yet to find out!

​@@MetroLiner hello!

It wasn't all built back then, but the system up to 2001 was mostly *planned* back in the 70s. There were some changes, particularly in the Green Line and the southern end of the Yellow Line, but what was built up to that point was basically the realization of the "101-mile system" that was drawn up by the opening of the first stations in 1976. Everything since then has been later-planned expansion. The Silver Line was the first line that had not been in the 101-mile system at all.

its judiciary square

I like those odds

Thank you for the feedback! The station labels are always so tricky to keep neat. I'm still figuring out what to do with them!

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@@lunik1983 Gracias

The MARC will get you to BWI, which is not part of the Washington DC metro area.

@@Michael-js6gp yea that's true but the MARC stops running around 9pm most days (sometimes even earlier). it's not as accessible/reliable as the metro

the yellow line is back now

@@jessepijones it doesn't go north of Mt Vernon anymore

And blue down south

Unfortunately just like the rest of the system they didn't build express lines that would allow some trains to skip stations and they didn't allocate any space to build an express line in the future, which means that taking the metro from Ashburn to D.C. takes at least an hour if not longer and that probably not gonna change anytime soon

GWU is

I would like to see it too. However the video would be 30% of existing network and rest would be showing planned lines.

Well, the reason that there are not more extensions in MD is that MD is not growing nearly as much as Northern VA.

​@@michaelimbesi2314 Not sure that is right because both are growing equally. It's more so that Maryland is putting in less money towards Metro expansion into the state than Virginia.

@@MarloSoBalJr as prideful of a marylander as I am, it’s true, and not because I just moved to Alexandria but statistically Alexandria and Arlington county as a whole is growing way more rapidly compared to Moco and PG mostly due to the fact that Nova leaders have actually fully committed to up zoning and continuing the already developed transit oriented communities while Moco has really stagnated over the years with Silver Spring and Bethesda losing big names like Capital One and Lockheed Martin while they continue the trend of sprawl and single family homes. Hopefully the purple line can revitalize MD but it hasn’t looked as good especially since the pandemic

What would you call the Purple line then? That's gonna be a huge game changer once its completed. Also, while I absolutely want some sort of connection to Annapolis, it should be commuter rail, and not part of metro.

I’m not sure if it still exists post COVID but there was a shuttle to BWI from Greenbelt.

It would be interesting if only all rapid transit is included: Urban Rail, Rapid Tram etc. The metro did not have any extrnsion for a long time

It is on the channel Metro Cucumber

You beat me to pointing that out! 😉

You mean putting every city on one map?

@@stevenroshni1228 kinda

@@stevenroshni1228 why not smth different

Let’s get him to do it :)

I mean mutual parts

It was an odd choice indeed! I wonder what the reason behind it was.

​@@MetroLinerThe reason is that WMATA (the transit agency) assumed people are idiots and wanted to get them used to the interlining of blue and orange of the new system.

@@MetroLiner hi I have a video idea imagine this if there was a video about a interconnected transit system every system in the world is connected every line and station all with one card and you could make up extensions just something fun your vids are good You need to take down metrocucumber

Well it was DC in the 1980s. Just look at Mayor Barry from back then

@@iancypes5911 We here all that that marionberries were a joke when maironberrey jam hit the stores here during Ex-mayor-for-life Barry's third term of office.