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Metro at a glance

  • Metro reports
  • Metro facts
    Metro system size, vehicles, and other facts about Metro.
  • Approved Fiscal 2009 Annual Budget (7.3 megabyte PDF file)
  • Metro functional organization chart (PDF)
  • Metro documents of presumptive public interest
    These documents are published under Metro's Public Access to Records Policy.
  • Metro privacy and data use policy
    Metro respects your privacy. Our corporate privacy policy, systems of records notices, and Web privacy pages detail what personal data we collect and how we use and safeguard it.
  • Metro environmental policy
    Metro is committed to compliance with environmental laws, regulations, policies, procedures and other adopted requirements.
  • Metro's Title VI Policy Statement
    Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing regulations and guidelines provides that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin under any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance. Federal Transit Administration recipients must take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to the benefits, services, information, and other important portions of their programs and activities for individuals who are Limited English Proficient (LEP).
  • How is Metro funded?
    Fares and advertising revenue do not pay for all of the costs of operating Metrorail, Metrobus and MetroAccess service. The shortfall is covered by contributions from the District of Columbia; Maryland; Arlington; Alexandria; Fairfax; Fairfax County and Falls Church. This presentation describes how the operating subsidy is allocated among those entities.
  • Metro Police
    Information on the Metro transit police, including crime statistics and telephone numbers, online employment application.
  • MetroArts
    MetroArts, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Art in Transit program, works with artists and communities to install artwork at Metrorail stations.
  • MetroPerforms!
    Developed by Metro's Art in Transit Program, MetroPerforms! invites local performers to showcase their talents at select Metrorail station entrances.
  • History
    Milestones in Metro's history from 1952 to the present.
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