Metro just approved a plan to make the Red Line work a bit more like the subways in Shanghai, Copenhagen, and Singapore, with driverless automatic trains and glass doors separating the platform from the tracks— though not for several years at least.
The WMATA board of directors voted today to endorse a plan to fully automate the Red Line and add platform screen doors as part of its capital improvement plan. The other lines would come next.
The changes wouldn’t be finished on the Red Line until 2032 at the earliest, and are contingent on federal funding. Platform screen doors would initially be added at 20 out of 27 stops on the Red Line, between Grosvenor-Strathmore and Silver Spring. No designs exist yet, but there was already plenty of speculation online about how the doors might look.
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