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Large Print Pocket Guide.Indd METRORAIL RFP SmarTrip®/ID card. Customers can also present a valid Medicare card and a photo ID and pay the Each passenger needs a SmarTrip® farecard to enter reduced fare in cash. For details about qualifying for wmata.com | 202-637-7000 | TTY 202-962-2033 TTY | 202-637-7000 | wmata.com and exit. The card can be reloaded with value and the SmarTrip®/ID card and buying senior SmarTrip® reused to pay Metrorail and Metrobus fares and cards, visit wmata.com or call 202-637-7000 parking fees at Metro-operated lots. (TTY 202-962-2033). Buy a SmarTrip® farecard from a FARE VENDING machine at a Metrorail station. Add value to your Free travel training and orientations on how to For trip planning, card at a FARE VENDING or ADD VALUE machine use accessible Metrobus and Metrorail services in Metrorail stations, at select retail locations and on are available to senior citizens and people with Lost & Found, our website. Or buy one at over 200 retail locations disabilities by calling 202-962-2703 or online at wmata.com. Online, you can also check (TTY 202-962-2033). SmarTrip® cards, your registered card’s value, see where and when you used it last or report it lost or stolen. PARKING AT METRO STATIONS POINTS OF INTEREST OF POINTS parking information There is a daily fee to park at Metro lots and garages METRO SYSTEM MAP SYSTEM METRO Fares are based on when and how far you ride. on weekdays. There is no parking fee on weekends RIDER INFORMATION RIDER Station-to-station fares are located on station and federal holidays. Cash is not accepted, except at and much more, manager kiosks and FARE VENDING machines. Pocket Guide Pocket metered spaces. All Metro lots and garages accept The machines accept cash, credit and debit cards. Large Print Print Large payment with a SmarTrip® card and most accept If you use cash, bring small bills; the machines only all you need to Metrorail Metrorail major credit cards. Daily parking fees vary by station provide up to $10 in change. and are posted at the parking entrance/exit and on If you want one day of unlimited Metrorail rides, know is one our website. save money with a One Day Pass. Buy it from a Save a lot while FARE VENDING machine and load it onto your TRAVEL TIPS Web site and you see the ® SmarTrip card. To avoid long lines at FARE VENDING machines after sights. Up to two children under age five may travel free with a major event, make sure you have roundtrip fare on one phone number: a paying customer. your SmarTrip® farecard at the start of your trip. HOURS OF SERVICE The weekday rush-hour periods — before 9:30 a.m. wmata.com. and and between 3 and 7 p.m. — are the most crowded. Monday - Thursday 5 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. If possible, plan your trip to avoid those times. 202-637-7000. Friday 5 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. If you lose an item on a bus or train or in a station , Saturday 7 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. please call Lost & Found at 202-962-1195 or visit our Sunday 8 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. For TTY service, website. Last train times vary. To avoid missing the last train, Sign up for MetroAlerts at wmata.com and get timely, please check the last train times posted in stations. please call targeted Metro information sent right to your desktop or mobile device. FARES FOR SENIOR/DISABLED 202-638-3780. If you’re visiting our nation’s capital and CUSTOMERS plan to ride Metro a lot, save money with a One Day Pass. For just $14.75, you can Senior citizens 65 and older and people with ride Metrorail AND Metrobus as much as you want and as far as you want in a day. disabilities may ride for half the regular fare. On You can load a One Day Pass onto your SmarTrip ® card at any Metro station. Metrorail, use a Senior or WMATA Reduced Fare Program for People with Disabilities (RFP) Photo/ ® SmarTrip ID card. On Metrobus, use a Senior or Information may change without notice. 50.533 (Rev. 6/17) POINTS OF INTEREST Transfer Station Station Features Red Line • Glenmont / Shady Grove ll Bus to Airport African Art Museum ......................................... Smithsonian System Orange Line • New Carrollton / Vienna Parking Station Air and Space Museum ............................. llll L’Enfant Plaza Blue Line • Franconia-Springfield / Largo Town Center in Service Map Legend Hospital Under Construction Green Line • Branch Ave / Greenbelt American Art Museum ...................................lll Gallery Place Airport Full-Time Service wmata.com Yellow Line • Huntington / Mt Vernon Sq / Fort Totten Service operates Customer Information Service: 202-637-7000 Connecting Rail Systems Monday-Friday American History Museum ................................ ll Smithsonian • Wiehle-Reston East / Largo Town Center TTY Phone: 202-962-2033 Silver Line 10:00am - 3:00pm Metro Transit Police: 202-962-2121 7:30pm - Close Botanic Gardens .............................................. ll Federal Center SW All day Saturday & Sunday Bureau of Engraving & Printing ........................ ll Smithsonian Capitol Building ................................................ ll Capitol South Glenmont Chinatown ....................................................lll Gallery Place Wheaton Montgomery Co Prince George’s Co Constitution Hall ............................................... ll Farragut West Shady Grove Forest Glen Convention Center ........................................... ll Mt Vernon Sq Rockville Silver Spring Corcoran Gallery .............................................. ll Farragut West Twinbrook B30 to D.C. Armory ..................................................... ll Stadium-Armory White Flint Greenbelt BWI Montgomery Co District of Columbia College Park-U of Md FedEx Field ......................................................... l Morgan Boulevard Grosvenor - Strathmore Georgia Ave-Petworth Takoma Prince George’s Plaza Federal Bureau of Investigation ......................lll Metro Center Medical Center West Hyattsville Folger Shakespeare Library .............................. ll Capitol South Bethesda Fort Totten Friendship Heights Tenleytown-AU Prince George’s Co Freer Gallery .................................................... ll Smithsonian Van Ness-UDC District of Columbia Hirshhorn Museum ................................... llll L’Enfant Plaza Cleveland Park Columbia Heights Woodley Park Holocaust Museum ......................................... ll Smithsonian Zoo/Adams Morgan Brookland-CUA Dupont Circle U St ll African-Amer Civil Iwo Jima Memorial ........................................... Rosslyn Farragut North War Mem’l/Cardozo Shaw-Howard U Rhode Island Ave Brentwood Wiehle-Reston East Jefferson Memorial ........................................... ll Smithsonian McPherson Spring Hill Mt Vernon Sq NoMa-Gallaudet U New Carrollton Sq 7th St-Convention Center Library of Congress .......................................... ll Capitol South Greensboro Fairfax Co Landover Arlington Co Tysons Corner Gallery Place Union Station Chinatown Cheverly Lincoln Memorial .............................................. ll Foggy Bottom-GWU 5A to Foggy McLean IAD Rosslyn Judiciary Sq Deanwood Lisner Auditorium ............................................. ll Foggy Bottom-GWU Farragut West Bottom-GWU Minnesota Ave Martin Luther King Jr. Mem'l ............................ ll Smithsonian Kennedy Center Vienna VT/UVA Metro Center Merrifield Archives Masonic Temple ............................................... ll King Street-Old Town Fairfax-GMU Dunn Loring Potomac AveStadium-Armory BenningCapitol Rd HeightsAddisonMorgan Rd Larg Blvd Clarendon Potomac River Seat Pleasant Ballston-MU Court House o Nat'l Academy of Sciences ............................... ll Foggy Bottom-GWU West Falls Church Federal Triangle Navy Mem’l-Penn Quarter Eastern Market Town Center East Falls ChurchVirginia Sq-GMU Smithsonian Federal CenterCapitol SW South National Mall National Aquarium ............................................ ll Federal Triangle Arlington Cemetery National Archives ............................................. ll Archives L’Enfant Plaza 5A to IAD l Arlington Co National Building Museum ................................... Judiciary Sq Fairfax Co District of Columbia National Gallery of Art....................................... ll Archives Pentagon Prince George’s Co National Geographic Society ............................... l Farragut North Waterfront Anacostia River Pentagon City Anacostia Navy Yard-Ballpark National Institutes of Health ................................. l Medical Center Naylor Rd Suitland National Museum of African American Congress HeightsSouthern Ave Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport History and Culture ....................................... ll Smithsonian Branch Ave Braddock Rd 1. From this station, transfer to any southbound National Museum of Van Dorn St Crystal City Alexandria 30-series Metrobus. the American Indian ............................... llll L’Enfant Plaza King St-Old Town 2. University-operated shuttle between station National Portrait Gallery ................................lll Gallery Place and campus. Eisenhower Ave National Postal Museum ...................................... l Union Station Alexandria 3. Georgetown Metro Connection shuttle runs National Shrine of the Fairfax Co through Georgetown from Foggy Bottom- Franconia-Springfield Huntington GWU Station (also Rosslyn and Dupont Immaculate Conception .................................... l Brookland-CUA Metro is accessible. Map is not to scale Circle Stations). National WWII Memorial ................................... ll Smithsonian WASHINGTON
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