Metro's Blue Line Extension

WMATA announced yesterday that they have "energized" the third rail of the new extension on the blue line. In the press release WMATA notes:

"The 3.1 mile, two-station, $456 million extension of the Blue Line from the current Addison Road-Seat Pleasant Metro station to the Largo Town Center with an intermediate station at Morgan Boulevard is scheduled to open at the end of this year. The extension of the Blue Line will achieve a number of "firsts" in Metrorail history: It is the first segment to be added to the 103-mile adopted regional system, bringing it to a total of 106.1 miles; and it's the first of four segments of the Metrorail system in Prince George's County, MD, to extend beyond the Capital Beltway."