The Silver Line has been a big story for a long time , because it will extend rail west into Virg

(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) Metro is starting to familiarize its customers with the service oahu executive car rentals changes that will arrive with the opening of the Silver Line out to Reston, Virginia, a suburb west of Washington, D.C., expected oahu executive car rentals by the end of the year.
The first of three open houses took place in Capitol Heights, Md. on Tuesday. "The first question people ask us is, 'When is it going to be here?'" says Metro's Jim Hughes. As he explains, oahu executive car rentals the first phase of the $5.5 billion project is scheduled to open by the end of the year. "Particularly on the Virginia side, they've dealt with the construction for four years. They want it to happen."
The Silver Line has been a  big story  for a  long time , because it will extend rail west into Virginia, eventually to Dulles oahu executive car rentals International Airport and beyond oahu executive car rentals into Loudoun County once Phase II of the rail extension is completed in 2018. Even so, some folks at Metro's oahu executive car rentals open house who live at what will be the eastern end of the Silver oahu executive car rentals Line — Largo Town Center in Maryland — have heard little to nothing at about it.
"I live in Largo and I know that the Silver Line will have an impact on my community," says 65-year-old Yvonne Alston. "And I just wanted to see exactly when it was opening and exactly where it would go."
Hughes, WMATA's oahu executive car rentals director of intermodal planning, is also responsible oahu executive car rentals for making sure there is enough bus service to get Virginia commuters to the four new rail stops that will open in Tysons Corner, where there will be no new parking lots.
The opening of the Silver Line will come at the cost of other Metro lines. It will reduce Blue Line service during rush hour by two trains an hour, or one every twelve minutes. Hughes expects that change to inconvenience 6,000 to 8,000 passengers per day.
"There will also be less service on the Orange Line between oahu executive car rentals Vienna and West Falls Church, the end of the line, where we are expecting a lot of people to switch over to the Silver Line," Hughes says. "So we don't need as much service between those last couple stops."
Two more public meetings on the Silver Line are scheduled. The first is at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 at the Reston Community Center in in Reston, Va. The second is at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 16 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington.