Guys I will tell you all the end points of each metro, the red line goes from Glenmont to Shady Grove, the orange line goes from Vienna to New Carrollton, the Yellow line goes from Fort Totten to Huntington, the green line goes fron Greenbelt to Branch Avenue, the blue line goes from Franconia/Springfield to Largo Town Center, and the silver line goes from Largo Town Center to Wiehle-Reston East.
This was the most helpful guide I have ever saw you really helped eased mind about how to navigate through the metro. I will be attending George Washington university next month and will be interning in DC for the summer Im so exciting now that I know how to ride the metro!!! Thank you!!!
This was great! I take the metro in LA, so I am somewhat familiar and there are many similarities. Thanks for pointing out the time travel and the two different fares. You guys did an awesome job (and how kind to help someone while filming-there's hope for humanity!)
DC metro is quick, clean, and efficient. It does break! I can't wait until they extend the Silver and Purple lines. I would change the system to a flat price fare, more people would ride it!
i miss DC. i lived in woodley park for a year while working for scripps-woward news service. i was like a block away from the red line. i'd wake up in the morning, throw on flip flops, shorts and a hoodie, grab a coffee and (if i wanted to) hopped on the red to see a friend as far away as the armory or as close as dupont. at $10 a week, it really wasn't bad.
Your video was exactly what I needed. I live in western Maryland and I went to a Nationals game last night - I found the Metro fun but confusion. The deal is that I may be transferred to the National Mall (park ranger) later this year and I'll be using the Metro everyday. Your very informative and fun video has been very helpful. Obviously you enjoy living in the DC area just as I am looking forward to enjoying working there. Thanks again, Mannie
ty so much. I spontaniously sprung out a "road trip!" to dc in a week and i know, without even investigating, that taking a car around the tourist areas would be dumb. I'm still a lil worried about using the metro but this made me feel better.
Thank you so much! It's a little complicated, but with your information, it will be very easy for me when I'm there. I come from Paris in France, the price is simpler (1.5 € anywhere, anytime) but the map is much more complicated (300 stations, 15 lines, all the colors of the rainbow are used). Your video is in any case very nice.
I’m writing a comic where the subway is going to be playing a pretty big role. This is helpful because I’ve only ridden the metro once when I was 6, now I can get around the technical issues with the metro in the comic. :)
Just on a note...get a paper pocket guide from the booth, which has a list of what stops are closest to various attractions. Also, a new rush hour service plan was recently implemented, so some orange line trains now go to Largo Town Center instead of New Carrolton, and some yellow line trains go between Franconia-Springfield and Greenbelt rather than Huntington and Fort Totten/Mt. Vernon Square. AND NEVER STAND ON THE LEFT OF THE ESCALATOR. You will piss of lots of locals. Like me.
Not all sites are near Smithsonian station. The White House is by McPherson Square, the Capitol by Capitol South, the Lincoln Memorial a 10-minute walk from Foggy Bottom, the Air & Space and Hirshhorn Museum near L'Enfant Plaza, American Indian near Federal Center SW, and many other sites are near Archives station. The map shows the closest stop to each. Smithsonian would be the closest to the Washington Monument, Natural History Museum, Holocaust, Freer Gallery, Jefferson Memorial, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
thank you. I wish I would've watched your video when we went to DC a few months ago! We just took private tours which was very expensive...but we didn't know better. I tried to read the pocket guide but didn't get it.
Thank you! But how do you find your metro? You just look for it? I know it sounds stupid but I am new to this and need to get to a metro in three minutes
yes, the metro is really convenient. I heard that some of the profit will go into the maintenance and development of phenomenal Smithsonian museum. If it is true then I will not complain any more cause those museum are free. I am from Seattle and just back from DC. I have to say I really love DC!!
When I worked in D.C. in the early and mid 1970s, there was no metro, just those damned MetroBusses. Some thought the streets were made of wood, because they were building the subway at the time. I don't know when they finally finished it. But about 30 years later I came back for a visit and the train is a lot quicker getting from Virginia to D.C. than those old metrobusses.
thank you for sharing your time to explain how to navigate the metro rail system. the acquisition of a fair card will be the trickiest to obtain. I still have the old magnetic paper card from the 1980's! i am keeping it as a suvenior. so like to have you as a tour guide, are you available?
Nice! Now, I wish Metro employees were as nice, efficient and helpful to out of towners like me. I encountered a local who took the time to help me buy a ticket, unlike the rude, condescending employees, especially a Metro Center.
Do you have to buy a smart trip card? Are there machines for buying a one way fare rather than smart trip card (if you are probably just making the one journey during your time in DC?)
DC makes it way too confusing. It's ridiculous. In NY you buy your metro card and pay $2.25 for wherever you're going. Leave it to the south to not have it together.
Garland Gay If the DC Metro had dedicated funding like New York, Boston, Atlanta, etc. They'd have a flat fare too, but DC, MD, and VA can't agree. BART has a distance based fare too. Baltimore's Charm City Circulators are free, unlike DCs and have about 4 routes serving mostly downtown.
Garland Gay Yes dumb ass DC is the south. Maryland was a slave state as was VA and Delaware. You're telling me all those SOUTHERN states surround DC which magically isn't southern? Yea, no. Not to mention the US Census currently lists all three states as SOUTHERN states. Abe Lincoln also sent troops to those southern territories fight in the war to end slavery. Have you ever heard of the mason dixon line? All states below the line are southern territories and the line is in-between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Again, is DC not SOUTH of Maryland, a southern state? Educate yourself before fucking you speak next time.
nylotus Ive lived in Maryland and I have also lived in true northen and southern states. While it is technically a souhtern state in that it is below the mason-dixon I have to say personally the state has an identity crisis. It acts like a northern state in many respects, i.e. taxes, gun control, but the people are less uptight and in a hurry. Therefore my position is that its a southern state with a northern disposition. In closing I'll say that to me the south begins with Virginia -- along the east coast anyway. btw maryland was a union state
That first station is grosvener metro!!!! I RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY!!!! Idk why watching this even though I live in dc area. I go to grosvener all the time lol.
Do the metro rails have screens inside to tell people when to get off. I have low vision and am scared I will end up god knows where because I can't realize my stop by reading signs on the outside.
Wow, girls, I really really appreciate your explanation!!!! amazing,, you and your friend did a great job!! Congratulations!!! A lot of foreigns like me need this useful information for travel by train. It's my first time here in Washington and it's a wonderful city, and whit charm girls like you gonna be much better. Bye.
I see you made sure that you was fly! :) you didn't get your lines perfect but your image & figure shows how glamorous you are~ keep up the good work & check out my videos & comment
They call the station names out. I'm not from DC but have watched enough of these to get how it works. So just listen for your station......I plan on moving there soon so now I won't look like a tourist
Puedo ir de Gaylord national hotel hasta national mall,? Ayuda necesito un guia para el otro año y no gastar mucho y conocer todo lo que pueda en Washington
Guys I will tell you all the end points of each metro, the red line goes from Glenmont to Shady Grove, the orange line goes from Vienna to New Carrollton, the Yellow line goes from Fort Totten to Huntington, the green line goes fron Greenbelt to Branch Avenue, the blue line goes from Franconia/Springfield to Largo Town Center, and the silver line goes from Largo Town Center to Wiehle-Reston East.
This was the most helpful guide I have ever saw you really helped eased mind about how to navigate through the metro. I will be attending George Washington university next month and will be interning in DC for the summer Im so exciting now that I know how to ride the metro!!! Thank you!!!
this is great, thanks for posting. Never been there and visiting in December. You video is far more informative than the Metro's official video.
Very helpful. I was a little apprehensive coming to D.C. and using the Metro for the first time. Your video really helps a lot. Thank you
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm moving up there soon and have never had to navigate a metro on my own. I really appreciate this!
This was great! I take the metro in LA, so I am somewhat familiar and there are many similarities. Thanks for pointing out the time travel and the two different fares. You guys did an awesome job (and how kind to help someone while filming-there's hope for humanity!)
DC metro is quick, clean, and efficient. It does break! I can't wait until they extend the Silver and Purple lines. I would change the system to a flat price fare, more people would ride it!
i miss DC. i lived in woodley park for a year while working for scripps-woward news service. i was like a block away from the red line. i'd wake up in the morning, throw on flip flops, shorts and a hoodie, grab a coffee and (if i wanted to) hopped on the red to see a friend as far away as the armory or as close as dupont. at $10 a week, it really wasn't bad.
Thanks! So helpful for a Midwesterner who knows nada about any sort of Metro/Subway stuff.
This video will help us get through our visit to DC in a few days! Thank you!!
This video is just the information I was looking for. 30 minutes sitting on a Metro, got to do what you gotta do to get to the ballpark. Thanks
This was very helpful, thanks for posting this video...will definitely share with others!
Your video was exactly what I needed. I live in western Maryland and I went to a Nationals game last night - I found the Metro fun but confusion.
The deal is that I may be transferred to the National Mall (park ranger) later this year and I'll be using the Metro everyday. Your very informative and fun video has been very helpful. Obviously you enjoy living in the DC area just as I am looking forward to enjoying working there.
Thanks again,
Mannie
thank you this actually came really in handy for me today
ty so much. I spontaniously sprung out a "road trip!" to dc in a week and i know, without even investigating, that taking a car around the tourist areas would be dumb. I'm still a lil worried about using the metro but this made me feel better.
nuttypagal why would driving be dumb? too crowded? parking fee?
Thanks for taking the time to do this, it is very helpful.
Thank you so much! It's a little complicated, but with your information, it will be very easy for me when I'm there. I come from Paris in France, the price is simpler (1.5 € anywhere, anytime) but the map is much more complicated (300 stations, 15 lines, all the colors of the rainbow are used). Your video is in any case very nice.
I wish I had seen this video before our D.C. vacation, very helpful.
Extremely helpful video, nice job!!
I’m writing a comic where the subway is going to be playing a pretty big role. This is helpful because I’ve only ridden the metro once when I was 6, now I can get around the technical issues with the metro in the comic. :)
Thanks for the video, Very useful.
Thank you!! I feel a lot better about using the Metro by myself in a few days!!
Thanks--Awesome Job - very helpful.
makes more sense than the metro video. thank you for sharing the information!
This was both hilarious and helpful
thanks for the great information really helpful
great tips keep bringing the videos
The locals seem to be by far 10 times more helpful than the disgruntled, good for nothing metro employees. Thanks for the video!
Thank you. Excellent video!
You explained it well... thanks!
That is very informative. Thank you.
Thanks for doing this!
yeah politicians understand how great public transportation can be.
This was very helpful and informative
Much better video than the official Metro video. Go figure.
Just on a note...get a paper pocket guide from the booth, which has a list of what stops are closest to various attractions.
Also, a new rush hour service plan was recently implemented, so some orange line trains now go to Largo Town Center instead of New Carrolton, and some yellow line trains go between Franconia-Springfield and Greenbelt rather than Huntington and Fort Totten/Mt. Vernon Square.
AND NEVER STAND ON THE LEFT OF THE ESCALATOR. You will piss of lots of locals. Like me.
metrocard is mta nyc's card, it is called smarttrip in dc.
Me encantó tu video!!! Very nice!
Thanks alot for the tips .
Not all sites are near Smithsonian station. The White House is by McPherson Square, the Capitol by Capitol South, the Lincoln Memorial a 10-minute walk from Foggy Bottom, the Air & Space and Hirshhorn Museum near L'Enfant Plaza, American Indian near Federal Center SW, and many other sites are near Archives station. The map shows the closest stop to each.
Smithsonian would be the closest to the Washington Monument, Natural History Museum, Holocaust, Freer Gallery, Jefferson Memorial, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
WMATA is now using SmarTrip only on Metrorail, no more Paper Farecards as of March this year.
On Fridays take Bart to college in the morning
Robin messed up...she went thru the wheelchair entrence😄😂
thank you. I wish I would've watched your video when we went to DC a few months ago! We just took private tours which was very expensive...but we didn't know better. I tried to read the pocket guide but didn't get it.
very useful, thanks :D
Golly, 10 years ago
Great Information. Thanks for showing how to ride the metro =)
hater everywhere smh. FLying to DC next month. Thank you very much for the video , very instructive !!!.
Good ol Metro....dont forget the halk hour waits sometimes x) especially if someone gets sick on there xD OH joy
Thank you! But how do you find your metro? You just look for it? I know it sounds stupid but I am new to this and need to get to a metro in three minutes
thank you so much, we are getting stationed at walter reed, I'm a country texas boy and this all seems a little daunting to me :(
Thanks im moving to DC so wanted to know how to get around
yes, the metro is really convenient. I heard that some of the profit will go into the maintenance and development of phenomenal Smithsonian museum. If it is true then I will not complain any more cause those museum are free. I am from Seattle and just back from DC. I have to say I really love DC!!
haha, I love red line too. from Grosvenor Strathmore to Metro Center.
Thank you!!
When I worked in D.C. in the early and mid 1970s, there was no metro, just those damned MetroBusses. Some thought the streets were made of wood, because they were building the subway at the time. I don't know when they finally finished it. But about 30 years later I came back for a visit and the train is a lot quicker getting from Virginia to D.C. than those old metrobusses.
Can you guys also explain the new Silver Line that's added to the system?
Its only confusing for tourists, Residents are used to the madness. :P
ESCALATORS: STAND on the right, WALK on the left
Very helpful
thank you for sharing your time to explain how to navigate the metro rail system. the acquisition of a fair card will be the trickiest to obtain. I still have the old magnetic paper card from the 1980's! i am keeping it as a suvenior. so like to have you as a tour guide, are you available?
Well explained.
Nice! Now, I wish Metro employees were as nice, efficient and helpful to out of towners like me. I encountered a local who took the time to help me buy a ticket, unlike the rude, condescending employees, especially a Metro Center.
Do you have to buy a smart trip card? Are there machines for buying a one way fare rather than smart trip card (if you are probably just making the one journey during your time in DC?)
That's near the same in New York City is indeed metro card
DC makes it way too confusing. It's ridiculous. In NY you buy your metro card and pay $2.25 for wherever you're going. Leave it to the south to not have it together.
D.C. isn't THE south. You live in America?????????????? Doy doy doy doy….
Garland Gay If the DC Metro had dedicated funding like New York, Boston, Atlanta, etc. They'd have a flat fare too, but DC, MD, and VA can't agree. BART has a distance based fare too. Baltimore's Charm City Circulators are free, unlike DCs and have about 4 routes serving mostly downtown.
Garland Gay Yes dumb ass DC is the south. Maryland was a slave state as was VA and Delaware. You're telling me all those SOUTHERN states surround DC which magically isn't southern? Yea, no. Not to mention the US Census currently lists all three states as SOUTHERN states. Abe Lincoln also sent troops to those southern territories fight in the war to end slavery. Have you ever heard of the mason dixon line? All states below the line are southern territories and the line is in-between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Again, is DC not SOUTH of Maryland, a southern state? Educate yourself before fucking you speak next time.
nylotus Ive lived in Maryland and I have also lived in true northen and southern states. While it is technically a souhtern state in that it is below the mason-dixon I have to say personally the state has an identity crisis. It acts like a northern state in many respects, i.e. taxes, gun control, but the people are less uptight and in a hurry. Therefore my position is that its a southern state with a northern disposition. In closing I'll say that to me the south begins with Virginia -- along the east coast anyway. btw maryland was a union state
The confusingness makes it fun, btw the potomac river is my boarder between the north and the south because I do it based off of the civil war...
Good job. thanks.
That first station is grosvener metro!!!! I RECOGNIZED IT IMMEDIATELY!!!! Idk why watching this even though I live in dc area. I go to grosvener all the time lol.
I think robin is fine as hell
Thanks a lot.
thanks for sharing.
Hate ask but...are there feral ghouls down there?
good video. I have been there today
Do the metro rails have screens inside to tell people when to get off. I have low vision and am scared I will end up god knows where because I can't realize my stop by reading signs on the outside.
OK, I'll keep this in mind when I travel in on Monday to see the Mets beat the Nationals...
Wow, girls, I really really appreciate your explanation!!!! amazing,, you and your friend did a great job!! Congratulations!!! A lot of foreigns like me need this useful information for travel by train. It's my first time here in Washington and it's a wonderful city, and whit charm girls like you gonna be much better. Bye.
Good farepricing system. BC Translink in Canada uses it too, but GO Transit, noooo!
what if you planned your route on your phone and pressed a button and it lit the route up on the screen and when it's not in use it plays media
0:00 RIP Non-SmarTrain Pass
Maddox Cox hey you SAW this vid too😂😂😂😂
Funny how all the cities not on a coast do not have underground metros :P
Fuck all the haters- thank you so much y'all are beautiful and extremely helpful!!!! Thank you😊😊😊
U don't really swipe, u can just tap- DC resident
I know this chick in the vid is a transplant...non native.
She is so informative, and cute too!
when is the silver line opening?
We better take some sort of tour, or we may end up in Europe. 😁
Thanks
Always stand on left on escalator. I say block the rude ass locals who always run late work and can't wake up few minutes earlier.
stay in Rosslyn and make your whole visit easier
I see you made sure that you was fly! :) you didn't get your lines perfect but your image & figure shows how glamorous you are~ keep up the good work & check out my videos & comment
Need to do a "How to get a date with Robin" video. Just sayin.
how do you know which direction to travel, is it by stops or by directions
Directions for the most part. Each trains have there 'ways' like for the Blue line is "Largo Town Centre" or "Franconia-Springfield."
They call the station names out. I'm not from DC but have watched enough of these to get how it works. So just listen for your station......I plan on moving there soon so now I won't look like a tourist
thumbs up if you saw bethsada and started thinking about fallout 3
How did she read me mind? mindblown
I was there when a pedestrian bridge fell on the tracks
+kenobi ford But were you there when that woman did Yoga or Gymnastics on the tracks?
+rockvilleraven No I was there for that one!
Alexander King They did arrest her, one false move sideways and she could have gotten fried by the third rail.
She's CUTE
Puedo ir de Gaylord national hotel hasta national mall,? Ayuda necesito un guia para el otro año y no gastar mucho y conocer todo lo que pueda en Washington
That was very helpful. Thank you !
How about you ladies show us how to read the electronic display on the platform and get on the right train?
I'd travel with her anytime!