Today is only the third day since the Silver Line opened and the Wiehle-Reston station is already the 12th busiest station in the entire Metro system.

In a conference call with media this morning, WMATA spokesman Dan Stessel said that, since 10 a.m., the Wiehle-Reston station—one of five new Silver Line stations—saw 4,727 entering the station to board Silver Line trains, making it the 12th busiest of Metro’s 91 stations. To put that in context, that’s “on par with [the] Columbia Heights [station], within 150 entries,” Stessel says.

Since the Silver Line opened—to much excitement from both D.C., Virginia, and Maryland officials and politicians, and thousands of gleeful riders—it’s been off to a “very respectable start,” Stessel says. On Saturday, there were just over 32,000 trips, while Sunday saw 19,000 trips. Moreover, the start of Silver Line service kicked off with relatively few problems, which, given the tumultuous history of its development, is even more impressive.

Other than one incident on Saturday, in which a train overshot a platform at the Tysons station by four cars, resulting in a nine-minute delay, Stessel there haven’t been any other reported problems. The addition of Silver Line has made trains on both the Blue and Orange lines less crowded, as Metro predicted. “If you’re headed to Vienna,” Stessel says, “it’s to your benefit to take a Silver Line to East Falls Church and then get out and wait three minutes for an Orange Line train to follow.”

Although the Wiehle-Reston station is doing particularly well in ridership, the other Silver Line stations aren’t seeing nearly as many entries and exits this morning: At McLean, 568 people entered the station, while 442 exited; at Tysons Corner, 507 entered and 900 exited; 185 entered at Greensboro and 332 exited; and at Spring Hill, 559 entered, while 432 exited. But those numbers aren’t surprising to Metro, who predicted that the Wiehle-Reston station would see a lot more ridership than the other ones, mostly because it’s at the end of the Silver Line.

“We’ve heard reports of that ridership shift we’ve been expecting,” Stessel says. “People have reported more room on trains on the Orange Line, as well as more parking at Orange Line stations.” Parking at a Silver Line station, however, is a different story.