Washington Metro Wikipedia. This article needs to be updated. In particular some as of statements need updating. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. April 2. Washington Metro. Overview. Locale. Washington, D. C. Transit type. Rapid transit. Number of lines. 6Line number. Red Line. Blue Line. Orange Line. Yellow Line. Green Line. Silver Line. Number of stations. Daily ridership. 74. Q4 2. 01. 61Annual ridership. Chief executive. Paul Wiedefeld2Headquarters. St NWWashington, D. C. 2. 00. 01. Websitewww. Operation. Began operation. Mara Jade Skywalker was, during different times in her life, an Emperors Hand, a smuggler, and. AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Terms of Use Preferences Contact Us. March 2. 7, 1. 97. OperatorsWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority WMATACharacter. At grade, elevated, and underground. Number of vehicles. Train length. 6 or 8 cars. When the Romans began acquiring bits and pieces of the eastern Mediterranean in the second century BC, they encountered a highly developed, urban, populous, and rich. Weve written a lot about the art of quitting. Its cathartic, productive, and it may even make you live longer. Heres a guide to Lifehackers best advice. The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United. People who dont have hand towels in your bathrooms What do you think your guests dry their hands on 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. BWw2-3KqQPc/WbhqGX0a6SI/AAAAAAAAWS0/Sjl49ZWA__8nBnxdhSiUAp3t9IWOIPxewCLcBGAs/s640/Slide54.JPG' alt='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' title='Odd Project The Second Hand Stopped Rar' />Headway. Technical. System length. No. of tracks. 2Track gauge. Minimum radius of curvature. Electrification. Third rail 7. VDCThe Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail,4 is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority WMATA, which also operates Metrobus service under the Metro name. Besides the District of Columbia, Metro serves several jurisdictions in the states of Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Metro provides service to Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Virginia, to Arlington and Fairfax counties and the independent city of Alexandria. Combined with its ridership in the independent Virginia cities of Falls Church and Fairfax, the Metro service area is largely coextensive with the inner ring of the Washington metropolitan area. The system is currently being expanded to reach Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County, Virginia. It operates mostly as a subway in the District itself, while most of the suburban tracks are at surface level or elevated. Opened in 1. 97. 6, the network now includes six lines, 9. Due to subway track depths, Metros Wheaton station has the longest, single tier escalator in the Western Hemisphere, spanning 2. Metro is the third busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway and Chicago L. There were 2. Metro in fiscal year 2. In June 2. 00. 8, Metro set a monthly ridership record with 1. Fares vary based on the distance traveled, the time of day, and the type of card used by the passenger. Riders enter and exit the system using a proximity card called Smar. Trip. Historyedit. Metro under construction at the Navy Yard in 1. During the 1. 96. Washington. Harland Bartholomew, who chaired the National Capital Planning Commission, thought that a rail transit system would never be self sufficient because of low density land uses and general transit ridership decline. But the plan met fierce opposition, and was altered to include a Capital Beltway system plus rail line radials. The Beltway received full funding funding for the ambitious Inner Loop Freeway system was partially reallocated toward construction of the Metro system. In 1. 96. 0 the federal government created the National Capital Transportation Agency to develop a rapid rail system. In 1. 96. 6, a bill creating WMATA was passed by the federal government, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland,6 with planning power for the system being transferred to it from the NCTA. Interior of a rehabilitated Breda car. WMATA approved plans for a 9. Construction began after a groundbreaking ceremony on December 9, 1. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, District Mayor Walter Washington, and Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel tossed the first spade of dirt at Judiciary Square. The first portion of the system opened March 2. Red Line with five stations from Rhode Island Avenue to Farragut North, all in the District of Columbia. Arlington County, Virginia was linked to the system on July 1, 1. Montgomery County, Maryland, on February 6, 1. Prince Georges County, Maryland, on November 2. Fairfax County, Virginia, and Alexandria, Virginia, on December 1. Underground stations were built with cathedral like arches of concrete, highlighted by soft, indirect lighting. The name Metro was suggested by Massimo Vignelli, who designed the subway maps for the New York City Subway. The 1. 03 mile 1. Green Line segment to Branch Avenue on January 1. This did not mean the end of the growth of the system a 3. Blue Line to Largo Town Center and Morgan Boulevard opened on December 1. The first in fill station, No. Ma  Gallaudet University at the time called the New York AveFlorida AveGallaudet University station on the Red Line between Union Station and Rhode Island Ave Brentwood, opened November 2. Construction began in March 2. Dulles Airport to be built in two phases. The first phase, five stations connecting East Falls Church to Tysons Corner and Wiehle Avenue in Reston, opened on July 2. Metro construction required billions of federal dollars, originally provided by Congress under the authority of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1. Public Law 9. 1 1. The cost was paid with 6. This act was amended on January 3, 1. Public Law 9. 6 1. The National Capital Transportation Amendment of 1. Stark Harris Act, which authorized additional funding of 1. WMATA in July 1. 98. On November 1. 5, 1. Public Law 1. 01 5. The National Capital Transportation Amendments of 1. The highest ridership for a single day was on the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 2. It broke the previous record, set the day before, of 8. June 2. 00. 8 set several ridership records the single month ridership record of 1. In February 2. 00. Metro officials chose Randi Miller, a car dealership employee from Woodbridge, Virginia, to record new doors opening, doors closing, and please stand clear of the doors, thank you announcements after winning an open contest to replace the messages recorded by Sandy Carroll in 1. The Doors Closing contest attracted 1,2. On October 3. 0, 2. Rally to Restore Sanity andor Fear broke a 1. Saturday ridership, with 8. The previous record had been set on June 8, 1. Desert Storm rally. Opening dateseditYear. Line. From. To. March 2. Red. Farragut North. Rhode Island Avenue. December 1. 5, 1. Red opening of Gallery PlaceFarragut North. Rhode Island Avenue. January 1. 7, 1. 97. Red. Dupont Circle. Rhode Island Avenue. July 1, 1. 97. 7Blue. National Airport. Stadium Armory. February 6, 1. Red. Dupont Circle. Silver Spring. November 2. OrangeBlue. National Airport. New Carrollton. December 1, 1. Orange. Ballston. New Carrollton. November 2. BlueOrange. National AirportBallston. Addison RoadNew Carrolton. December 5, 1. 98. Red. Van Ness UDCSilver Spring. April 3. 0, 1. 98. Yellow. National Airport. Gallery Place. December 1. Yellow. Huntington. Gallery Place. August 2. Peugeot Service Box 2009 Keygen Download Safe. Red. Grosvenor. Silver Spring. December 1. 5, 1. Red. Shady Grove. Silver Spring. June 7, 1. Orange. Vienna. New Carrollton. September 2. 2, 1. Red. Shady Grove. Wheaton. May 1. 1, 1. Yellow. Huntington. U Street Cardozo. June 1. 5, 1. 99. Blue. Van Dorn Street. Addison Road. December 2. Green. U Street Cardozo. Anacostia. December 1. Green. Fort Totten. Greenbelt. June 2. Blue. Franconia Springfield. Addison Road. July 2. Red. Shady Grove. Glenmont. September 1. Green connecting previous two segmentsGreenbelt. Anacostia. January 1. Green. Greenbelt. Branch Avenue. November 2. Red addition of New York Ave StationShady Grove. Glenmont. December 1. Blue. Franconia Springfield. Largo Town Center. July 2. 6, 2. 01. Silver. Wiehle Reston East. Largo Town Center. TBA 2. 01. 9 or 2. Silver. Ashburn. Largo Town Center2. ArchitectureeditMany Metro stations were designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese, and are examples of late 2. With their heavy use of exposed concrete and repetitive design motifs, Metro stations display aspects of Brutalist design. Mara Jade Skywalker Wookieepedia. Mara Jade Skywalker. Eye color. Skin colorIm a fighter. Ive always been a fighter. The few times when I have been at leisure, Ive been miserable. I want challenges, I crave them. Mara Jade SkywalkersrcMara Jade Skywalker was, during different times in her life, an Emperors Hand, a smuggler, and later a Jedi Master who sat upon the Jedi High Council. She was raised as a servant to Emperor. Palpatine and became a high level Force using operative. As an Emperors Hand, Jade carried out the Emperors bidding, killing. Rebels and corrupt Imperials alike with cold professionalism, even as a young woman. As Palpatines assassin, she received top notch training from experts in a variety of fields as well as training in the Force, which was continued by Luke Skywalker years later. After Palpatines death, she received his last command, which was to kill Luke Skywalker however, the death of her Master caused her to go rogue. Eventually she joined smuggler chief Talon Karrde, becoming one of his best smugglers and his second in command. During the predations of Grand Admiral. Thrawn, she was forced to work with Skywalker, and developed a grudging respect for him. During the Galactic Civil War, Mara Jade proved herself skilled in a variety of fields she was a good pilot and mechanic and trained in the use of both a blaster and hand to hand combat even without relying on the Force. Over the years, she continued to work for Karrde and interact with Skywalker intermittently, training at his Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 for a short period of time. She was groomed by Karrde to take over the Smugglers Alliance and had a brief relationship with Lando Calrissian as part of that role, although she later admitted it was a charade. She also continued to grow closer to Skywalker and worked alongside him on numerous occasions, including the Almanian Uprising and the Corellian Crisis. The two finally realized in 1. ABY while on a mission to Nirauan that they were in love, and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. After marrying Skywalker, Mara Jade took the surname Skywalker and devoted her life to the New Jedi Order, becoming a Master in her own right. Shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong War, she fell ill due to deadly coomb spores that shed been infected with by a Yuuzhan Vongagent. She used the Force to slow their progress even as she continued to fight against the alien invaders on numerous battlefields including Dantooine and Ithor, but the disease was only purged from her system after the birth of her son Ben in 2. ABY. After becoming a Master, Jade Skywalker took her niece Jaina Solo as an apprentice until she reached Knighthood. During that time, she participated in Jedi offensives against the Yuuzhan Vong, aiding in the war effort. After the fall of Coruscant, she helped Cal Omas become elected as the Chief of State as the New Republic reorganized itself into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Jade Skywalker ultimately saw her efforts against the Yuuzhan Vong rewarded in the wars final battle on Coruscant with the death of Supreme Overlord. Shimrra Jamaane. In the following years, Jade Skywalker was active during the Dark Nest Crisis and the subsequent Swarm War, wherein she helped to thwart the expansionist plans of Raynar Thul and the insectoid Killiks who were spreading into Chiss space and subverting many other people into becoming Joiners under the influence of several Dark Jedi. Jade Skywalker was insistent that the Jedi who had joined Killik communities would be withdrawn, as they were using their skills in combat against the Chiss, provoking them. She continued to serve by the side of her husband as a Jedi Master during the Second Galactic Civil War, first serving alongside the Galactic Alliance against the rebellious Confederation. The re emergence of the Sith Lady Lumiya was another threat that Jade Skywalker had to confront, but though she and her husband skirmished with both Lumiya and the fallen Jedi Alema Rar on multiple occasions, the darksiders escaped. As the war escalated, Jade Skywalker was killed by her nephew, Jacen Solo, whom she had learned was a Sith and therefore saw as a threat to her family personally, to the Jedi Order, and to the galaxy at large. Biography. Early life 1. BBY4 ABYYeah, its true. Now tell me who blabbed so I can go cut his head off. Mara Jades response to a couple of Jedi trainees questioning her past as an Emperors HandsrcMara Jade impersonating a dancer. Mara Jade was born in 1. BBY1 during a time of great instability as Emperor. Palpatine, alias the Sith Lord. Darth Sidious, and his apprentice. Darth Vader were eliminating the remnants of the Jedi Order. The Emperor took Jade from her parents and brought her to the planet. Coruscant at a very young age, where he began to train her in the Force, although officially she was one of the Imperial Palacesdancers. Years later, Jade remembered little about her early life besides her parents reluctance to let her go and her own certainty that she was going to leave with the Emperor. She did recall at one point that she had had a falling star globe as a child and had gotten in trouble after breaking it to see how it worked. Her master trained her in the ways of the Force and she was made into an agent of the Empire. Some of the Imperial court assumed her to simply be a dancer or one of Palpatines concubines. Emperors HandShe is, shall we say, an experiment. PalpatinesrcThroughout Jades youth, she was pushed through an intensive training regimenwhich involved training alongside the Imperial Royal Guard1. Emperors Hand, one of Palpatines personal assassins,1. Grand Moff. Wilhuff Tarkins private quarters. In order to accomplish her mission, Jade, posing as a guest at a formal event at Tarkins residence, feigned illness in order to get away from the other guests. She then retrieved a sack of equipment and descended down the side of the building to the room containing Tarkins private safe. While she was breaking in, a group of guards came inactually droidsand she engaged them with her blaster and lightsaber. However, upon sensing that one of the guards was living, she knocked him out rather than kill a soldier willing to give his life in a training exercise. Vader and Sidious were pleased with her skills and she was pronounced the Emperors Hand. Mara Jade, Emperors Hand. Despite there being several Emperors Hands, she, like the others, was unaware of the existence of any other Hands. Due to her deep connection with the Force, she could hear Palpatines voice anywhere in the galaxy via a telepathic link. Jade carried out Palpatines will on numerous worlds, eliminating corrupt Imperial officials, traitors, and others who he deemed deserving of death or judgment. His esteem for her was such that he actually allowed her time for relaxation, atypical of Palpatines usual style. In addition to a personal starship and a protocol droid named K3 to aid her in her duties as Hand, she also received a private quarters on Coruscant, where she kept her lightsaber and a lanvarok for left handersalthough Jade herself was right handedamong the items in her personal weapon collection. Before the Battle of Yavin, the destruction of an Imperial superweapon called the DS 1 Orbital Battle Station, she was tasked with gathering intelligence in order to help hunt down any Jedi she found that had survived Order 6. Jedi was Anya Kuro. Jade had come across a man trying to escape Imperial custody on Kuat and he yielded information to her obtained from a Sacorriansmuggler. The smuggler told her that Kuro was on fifth planet of the Cophrigin system. Jade lobbied the Emperor unsuccessfully to be allowed to be the one to end Kuro, but instead Vader was sent.