Metro
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transportation
Chris Zimmerman plays a leadership role in fostering numerous improvements to the Metro bus and rail service, including...
- Leading the effort to introduce environmental-friendly CNG buses.
- Leading the effort to put bike racks on buses.
- Advocating for late night rail service (extending beyond midnight on weekends.)
- Building the capability to run 8-car trains.
- Greatly increasing system capacity and reducing crowding.
- Developing real-time train-arrival information on Metrorail (“PIDS”), and real-time bus-arrival information for Metrobus (“NextBus.”)
- Instituting numerous improvements to bus service in the County, including “Pike Ride,” providing new direct-to-downtown bus rides from Arlington, in the Columbia Pike and Lee Highway corridors (the 16Y and 3Y), and enhancement of bus service connecting the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor to downtown (the 38B.)
- Working to save bus and rail service threatened by budget cuts.
