ARLINGTON COUNTY’S MOST ENDANGERED HISTORIC PLACES LIST 2017 “Losing our History”
1000-Series Metro Cars Out of Arlington’s 11 Metro stations, six of them opened within Metro’s first 15 months of operation that began in 1976 and all but one were open by the time the system turned three. When the first stations opened, Arlington County’s population was approximately 156,000 (compared to over 230,000 today). Arlington County had made a conscious decision to focus high density development in the transit corridors. Arlington has grown up along with the Metro system. Metro’s development…