How To Ride The DC Metro

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  • čas přidán 31. 07. 2010

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  • @kimberleyoneal834
    @kimberleyoneal834 Před 5 lety +12

    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.

  • @markwalter4881
    @markwalter4881 Před 3 lety +2

    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!

  • @Tres_cee
    @Tres_cee Před 9 lety +8

    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!!!

  • @roncarlson348
    @roncarlson348 Před 9 lety +6

    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.

  • @TraciRancier
    @TraciRancier Před 10 lety +4

    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!)

  • @tgswear
    @tgswear Před 13 lety

    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

  • @wanderingstormjen
    @wanderingstormjen Před 7 lety +1

    Thanks! So helpful for a Midwesterner who knows nada about any sort of Metro/Subway stuff.

  • @joeyclemenza7339
    @joeyclemenza7339 Před 10 lety

    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.

  • @Time2Rath
    @Time2Rath Před 11 lety

    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

  • @LuvsPlant
    @LuvsPlant Před 11 lety

    This video will help us get through our visit to DC in a few days! Thank you!!

  • @nuttypagal
    @nuttypagal Před 11 lety

    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.

    • @theleefamily5258
      @theleefamily5258 Před 7 lety

      nuttypagal why would driving be dumb? too crowded? parking fee?

  • @VirginiaHayley
    @VirginiaHayley Před 11 lety

    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!

  • @flyersong
    @flyersong Před 7 lety

    Thanks--Awesome Job - very helpful.

  • @calvinjohnson4308
    @calvinjohnson4308 Před 8 lety

    This was very helpful, thanks for posting this video...will definitely share with others!

  • @urinthematrix1
    @urinthematrix1 Před 9 lety +1

    Thanks for the video, Very useful.

  • @bougeault
    @bougeault Před 5 lety

    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.

  • @jimkelley5154
    @jimkelley5154 Před 6 lety

    Extremely helpful video, nice job!!

  • @mannie1952
    @mannie1952 Před 11 lety

    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

  • @matthewwilson5013
    @matthewwilson5013 Před 9 lety

    thanks for the great information really helpful

  • @tomokoseaver
    @tomokoseaver Před 12 lety

    Thank you!! I feel a lot better about using the Metro by myself in a few days!!

  • @willstjjohn9481
    @willstjjohn9481 Před 9 lety

    great tips keep bringing the videos

  • @vvnovember
    @vvnovember Před 11 lety

    Thank you. Excellent video!

  • @jrandjanet
    @jrandjanet Před 11 lety

    I wish I had seen this video before our D.C. vacation, very helpful.

  • @hafi2047
    @hafi2047 Před 7 lety

    thank you this actually came really in handy for me today

  • @taj400
    @taj400 Před 10 lety

    Thanks for taking the time to do this, it is very helpful.

  • @nawrashadi
    @nawrashadi Před 10 lety

    That is very informative. Thank you.

  • @randbsmith18
    @randbsmith18 Před 10 lety

    makes more sense than the metro video. thank you for sharing the information!

  • @Usaloverivan1
    @Usaloverivan1 Před 12 lety +1

    metrocard is mta nyc's card, it is called smarttrip in dc.

  • @kinkisharyocoasters
    @kinkisharyocoasters Před 10 lety +3

    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.

  • @austindavis9462
    @austindavis9462 Před 12 lety

    This was very helpful and informative

  • @melindastowell2711
    @melindastowell2711 Před 6 lety

    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. :)

  • @toofyaa
    @toofyaa Před 9 lety

    Thanks alot for the tips .

  • @ImGirishUnde
    @ImGirishUnde Před 5 lety

    You explained it well... thanks!

  • @KevinMeno2008
    @KevinMeno2008 Před 8 lety

    WMATA is now using SmarTrip only on Metrorail, no more Paper Farecards as of March this year.

  • @hchappy
    @hchappy Před 11 lety

    Great Information. Thanks for showing how to ride the metro =)

  • @susanacit133
    @susanacit133 Před 7 lety

    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.

  • @jaydham1
    @jaydham1 Před 7 lety

    This was both hilarious and helpful

  • @shebacastro4729
    @shebacastro4729 Před 8 lety

    Thanks for doing this!

  • @luisillomex23
    @luisillomex23 Před 11 lety

    Me encantó tu video!!! Very nice!

  • @tanishaarrington1773
    @tanishaarrington1773 Před 9 lety

    Thank you!!

  • @VanNguyen-bb1ig
    @VanNguyen-bb1ig Před 4 lety

    Very helpful

  • @poloikary
    @poloikary Před 8 lety

    very useful, thanks :D

  • @charlesmiliantx
    @charlesmiliantx Před 8 lety +1

    Much better video than the official Metro video. Go figure.

  • @williamscoufaras7045
    @williamscoufaras7045 Před 7 lety +1

    Can you guys also explain the new Silver Line that's added to the system?

  • @EvanBlack11
    @EvanBlack11 Před 12 lety

    Thanks im moving to DC so wanted to know how to get around

  • @my1995life
    @my1995life Před 10 lety

    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

  • @borenli1993
    @borenli1993 Před 10 lety

    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!!

  • @NeoB-Lac
    @NeoB-Lac Před 7 lety

    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 :(

  • @nylotus
    @nylotus Před 10 lety +11

    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.

    • @GarlandGay7
      @GarlandGay7 Před 10 lety +17

      D.C. isn't THE south. You live in America?????????????? Doy doy doy doy….

    • @rockvilleraven
      @rockvilleraven Před 10 lety +2

      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.

    • @nylotus
      @nylotus Před 10 lety +3

      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.

    • @E3guyy
      @E3guyy Před 10 lety +7

      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

    • @littleferrhis
      @littleferrhis Před 10 lety +1

      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...

  • @hgonzalez7778
    @hgonzalez7778 Před 7 lety

    hater everywhere smh. FLying to DC next month. Thank you very much for the video , very instructive !!!.

  • @PLefevre95
    @PLefevre95 Před 11 lety

    The locals seem to be by far 10 times more helpful than the disgruntled, good for nothing metro employees. Thanks for the video!

  • @GreenNetizen
    @GreenNetizen Před 7 lety

    Good job. thanks.

  • @kingbibihabibi
    @kingbibihabibi Před 12 lety

    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.

  • @garyemorin
    @garyemorin Před 12 lety

    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?

  • @bryansu5824
    @bryansu5824 Před 3 lety +2

    Golly, 10 years ago

  • @borenli1993
    @borenli1993 Před 10 lety

    haha, I love red line too. from Grosvenor Strathmore to Metro Center.

  • @djmpvae27091978
    @djmpvae27091978 Před 8 lety

    Well explained.

  • @brostom77
    @brostom77 Před 9 lety

    Thanks a lot.

  • @stevenkelly9731
    @stevenkelly9731 Před 5 lety

    Robin messed up...she went thru the wheelchair entrence😄😂

  • @user-zj6dz8zi3u
    @user-zj6dz8zi3u Před 10 měsíci

    On Fridays take Bart to college in the morning

  • @MusicAddict21
    @MusicAddict21 Před 10 lety

    Good ol Metro....dont forget the halk hour waits sometimes x) especially if someone gets sick on there xD OH joy

  • @ColonelMarcellus
    @ColonelMarcellus Před 6 lety

    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.

  • @borenli1993
    @borenli1993 Před 10 lety

    good video. I have been there today

  • @elizabethhome1
    @elizabethhome1 Před 9 lety

    thanks for sharing.

  • @DontxBringxPajamas
    @DontxBringxPajamas Před 8 lety

    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?)

  • @arielgonzalez5296
    @arielgonzalez5296 Před 7 lety

    That's near the same in New York City is indeed metro card

  • @milescarr8524
    @milescarr8524 Před 6 lety

    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.

  • @TTC4300
    @TTC4300 Před 10 lety

    Good farepricing system. BC Translink in Canada uses it too, but GO Transit, noooo!

  • @PLefevre95
    @PLefevre95 Před 12 lety

    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.

  • @Victor-tl4dk
    @Victor-tl4dk Před 3 lety +1

    yeah politicians understand how great public transportation can be.

  • @mrmeaty-gy5om
    @mrmeaty-gy5om Před 7 lety +1

    Hate ask but...are there feral ghouls down there?

  • @rupertoruiz
    @rupertoruiz Před 12 lety

    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.

  • @mimmijung9437
    @mimmijung9437 Před 10 lety

    Thanks

  • @Gen3rick
    @Gen3rick Před 11 lety

    when is the silver line opening?

  • @kickrockser
    @kickrockser Před 11 lety

    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.

  • @jcfilms7708
    @jcfilms7708 Před 10 lety +2

    how do you know which direction to travel, is it by stops or by directions

    • @sayvonclark2525
      @sayvonclark2525 Před 2 lety

      Directions for the most part. Each trains have there 'ways' like for the Blue line is "Largo Town Centre" or "Franconia-Springfield."

  • @SuperClashfan
    @SuperClashfan Před 11 lety

    She is so informative, and cute too!

  • @alexanderking8098
    @alexanderking8098 Před 10 lety

    Its only confusing for tourists, Residents are used to the madness. :P

  • @susanemmaallan1006
    @susanemmaallan1006 Před 7 lety

    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

  • @MissYetisol
    @MissYetisol Před 10 lety +10

    U don't really swipe, u can just tap- DC resident

    • @stevenkelly9731
      @stevenkelly9731 Před 5 lety

      I know this chick in the vid is a transplant...non native.

  • @wa2k99
    @wa2k99 Před 8 lety

    OK, I'll keep this in mind when I travel in on Monday to see the Mets beat the Nationals...

  • @KingB2K8
    @KingB2K8 Před 11 lety

    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

  • @lextacy2008
    @lextacy2008 Před 6 lety

    Funny how all the cities not on a coast do not have underground metros :P

  • @scoobywhoproductions9
    @scoobywhoproductions9 Před 13 lety

    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

  • @jjmcnutt5785
    @jjmcnutt5785 Před 5 lety +1

    How about you ladies show us how to read the electronic display on the platform and get on the right train?

  • @maddoxcox
    @maddoxcox Před 7 lety +1

    0:00 RIP Non-SmarTrain Pass

    • @jaycecox8700
      @jaycecox8700 Před 6 lety +1

      Maddox Cox hey you SAW this vid too😂😂😂😂

  • @emaclynch
    @emaclynch Před 11 lety

    stay in Rosslyn and make your whole visit easier

  • @pheonix85D
    @pheonix85D Před 11 lety

    ESCALATORS: STAND on the right, WALK on the left

  • @foobee_fbe3801
    @foobee_fbe3801 Před 6 lety

    Fuck all the haters- thank you so much y'all are beautiful and extremely helpful!!!! Thank you😊😊😊

  • @kylesteinhauser2535
    @kylesteinhauser2535 Před 6 lety

    I think robin is fine as hell

  • @ctrailfan3729
    @ctrailfan3729 Před 8 lety

    I was there when a pedestrian bridge fell on the tracks

    • @rockvilleraven
      @rockvilleraven Před 8 lety +1

      +kenobi ford But were you there when that woman did Yoga or Gymnastics on the tracks?

    • @alexanderking5395
      @alexanderking5395 Před 8 lety

      +rockvilleraven No I was there for that one!

    • @rockvilleraven
      @rockvilleraven Před 8 lety

      Alexander King They did arrest her, one false move sideways and she could have gotten fried by the third rail.

  • @nilajohnson1515
    @nilajohnson1515 Před 5 lety

    We better take some sort of tour, or we may end up in Europe. 😁

  • @Thiarafalcon
    @Thiarafalcon Před 7 lety

    That was very helpful. Thank you !

  • @bmdshred77
    @bmdshred77 Před 11 lety

    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.

  • @Drakeman2003
    @Drakeman2003 Před 11 lety

    I'd travel with her anytime!

  • @n2u2doll
    @n2u2doll Před 10 lety +25

    Take out the gum ugh

  • @yout0be1person
    @yout0be1person Před 12 lety

    How did she read me mind? mindblown

  • @Mantooth2851
    @Mantooth2851 Před 5 lety

    Need to do a "How to get a date with Robin" video. Just sayin.

  • @GlobosydetallesMJD
    @GlobosydetallesMJD Před 7 lety

    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

  • @ozarklily
    @ozarklily Před 10 lety +4

    This is a very helpful and cute video but I wish you ladies would redo it with less camera shake. Wooh! I sort of got seasick :)