Metro Reasons: Where did the Yellow and Green lines’ eight-car trains go?

This story originally appeared on Greater Greater Washington.

 Metro runs trains which are either six or eight cars in length; the latter cost more to run but can move more riders. With a recent budget increase, the Yellow and Green lines are supposed to have only eight-car trains running on them now, but the number of these longer trains has fallen in recent months, according to Metro data analyzed by MetroHero.

The drop corresponded with the six-station Platform Improvement Project shutdown on the Blue and Yellow lines that began on May 25, 2019. Turns out, there’s a reason for that.


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