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The Metro for Visitors

Fast Facts for Using the Metro During Your Visit to Washington D.C.

Metro Visitor’s Kit

The definitive guide to helping you use Metro to get around the greater Washington, D.C. area. Among other brochures and publications providing comprehensive information, it features the Metro Pocket Guide which provides you with the Metrorail system map, points of interest near Metrorail stations and information on system hours, fares and passes. You can download this publication by clicking on the Metro Pocket Guide, featuring a system map, points of interest near Metrorail stations, and information on system hours, fares and passes is available in eleven languages:

 

Map

Metro Map

Hours

Opens: 5 a.m. weekdays, 7 a.m. weekends
Closes: midnight Sunday-Thursday, 3 a.m. Friday-Saturday nights

Finding the Metro station

• If you're driving, look for the large Metro signs to direct you to stations.
• Tall brown columns with a large "M" identify the station entrances.
• Color stripes on the column show lines that serve the station.

What's the fare? How do I pay?

• See the fares and passes for details.
• For the fare and time of a particular trip, select your departure station from the stations page, then select your destination station on the form marked "Get Fare Data."

Waiting for the train

• Signs in the station tell you which train platform to use for your destination.
• Please stand behind the bumpy tiles along the platform's edge.
• Electronic signs in stations and flashing lights along the platform edge signal a train's arrival.

Boarding the train

• Check the destination of the train posted above the side windows.
• Stand clear of the train car doors and let riders get off before you board. Step over the small gap between the platform and the train.
• Listen for the chimes that signal the car doors are closing. If the train is full, step back and wait for the next train. Unlike elevator doors, train doors do not reopen automatically.

Using Metro to get to the airports

Reagan National Airport

Reagan National Airport can be reached by the Blue and Yellow lines National Airport station
For more information on getting to Reagan National Airport, see http://www.mwaa.com/national/index.htm

Dulles International Airport

• Take the Orange Line to West Falls Church-VTU/UVA station
• Take Washington Flyer bus service to airport
Or Take Metrobus route 5A from L'Enfant Plaza station with stops at Rosslyn station and the Monroe Fringe parking lot in Herndon (5A timetable and route map in PDF format)
For more information on getting to Dulles International Airport, go to their Web site http://www.mwaa.com/dulles/

Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Airport

• Take the Red Line to Union Station
• Transfer to MARC train (MARC web site) to BWI
• Take shuttle from MARC station to airport

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