Metro plans to acquire additional land along the creek to add to the parks.

Metro plans to eventually purchase up to 748 cars to increase system capacity and replace its older rolling stock.

Metro plans to deploy the same technology to all 1400 vehicles in its fleet within about 18 months of the A Line's opening.

The authority has a fleet of 1,500 buses, including 74 hybrid electric buses and Metro plans to have nearly 500 more hybrid-electric buses by 2012.

Metro plans to have automated stop announcements on buses beginning in late 2009 as part of its on-board communications system update.

Based on the 1940s plans, Metro planned to build an extensive network of highways that crisscrossed the city.

Metro plans to process 100% renewable biodiesel which can be blended with heating oil or diesel fuel.

Prior to designating the land as a nature park, Metro originally planned to build a landfill on the property in the 1980s.

Metro originally planned for the bus garage to be built near the new Anacostia station, where many of the routes the buses ran terminated.

Metro is planning to build new rail facilities over the next few years.