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DC’s Silver Line opening (nerd alert)

I’m in Washington, DC at the moment, and I’m very excited about the WMATA to open the Metro’s Silver line tomorrow. It’s the 6th line in the system, and the biggest change since the opening of the Green line.

Technically speaking, many of the changes went into effect last Sunday, when they began what they call Simulation Service. Basically for this week they’re running all the Silver trains through existing stations only (not the 5 new ones), and calling them Orange trains. They also have shuffled around the frequencies of the other trains. The changes are laid out beautifully in this article from InTheCapital.

But tomorrow at noon EDT is when the line really gets going, with the new stations being brought into service and the Silver trains getting designed as such, complete with cookies.