Metro Center (WMATA station)

Metro Center (WMATA station)
Metro Center
Metro Center from Shady Grove side with train.jpg
Station statistics
Address 607 13th Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20005
Lines
  Silver Line (planned)
Connections Metrobus
MTA Maryland Commuter Bus
Structure Underground
Levels 2
Platforms 2 side platforms (upper level)
1 island platform (lower level)
Tracks 4 (2 upper level, 2 lower level)
Bicycle facilities 8 racks
Other information
Opened March 27, 1976
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Code A01 (upper level)
C01 (lower level)
Owned by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 9.731 million[1]
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station
Farragut North
toward Shady Grove
Red Line
toward Glenmont
toward Franconia–Springfield
Blue Line
Federal Triangle
toward Largo Town Center
toward Vienna
Orange Line
Federal Triangle
toward Route 772
Silver Line (planned)
Federal Triangle
toward Stadium–Armory
Location
Metro Center (WMATA station) is located in Washington, D.C.
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Metro Center pylon.jpg

Metro Center is the central hub station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. Metro Center was one of the original Metro stations, and has been in service since March 27, 1976.

Metro Center is on the Blue, Orange, and Red Lines, and is a transfer station between the Red Line and the already-joined Blue and Orange Lines. It is also planned to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2013.

Metro Center is located in downtown Washington, under an area roughly extending east–west from 11th to 13th Streets Northwest, and north–south from F to H Streets Northwest. Its entrances are on G Street at 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets, and at the corner of 12th and F Streets. The station's only street elevator is on the west side of 12th Street north of G Street. It is the second busiest station in the Metrorail system after Union Station, averaging 30,500 passengers per weekday as of May 2006.[2]

The mezzanine (upper) level of the station contains side platforms for Red Line trains traveling towards Glenmont and towards Shady Grove. Orange Line and Blue Lines trains traveling in both directions share a center platform on the station's lower level.

A Metro sales office is located on the mezzanine level of the station on the platform for Glenmont-bound Red Line trains, near the 12th and F Street entrance. The Grand Hyatt Washington is connected to Metro Center, as is downtown's only remaining department store, Macy's. During the mid-20th century, the area was the commercial heart of Washington, housing many department stores, theaters, offices, restaurants, and entertainment venues. Due to a combination of the racial disturbances associated with the 1968 riots, the opening of new suburban malls, and concentration of new commercial building near K StreetFarragut Square, the Metro Center area declined. It later successfully revived. The Shops at National Place is an adjacent two-level dining/shopping complex.

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Improvements

The station is located so close to the Gallery Place station (which connects to the Yellow and Green Lines) that the lights of each station are visible to the other through the tunnel. Plans have long been in the works to add a pedestrian tunnel to connect Gallery Place–Chinatown with Metro Center and provide pedestrian access to five (eventually six) different Metro lines. The most recent major development was the completion of a "Gallery Place/Chinatown - Metro Center Pedestrian Passageway Tunnel Study" in July 2005.[3]

Notable places nearby

References

  1. ^ Neighborhood profiles WDCEP Retrieved 2011-10-19
  2. ^ "Request for Expressions of Interest for Operation of Retail Services in Metrorail Stations". WMATA. February 16, 2007. http://www.wmata.com/bus2bus/reoi/reoi.pdf. 
  3. ^ Parsons; KPG Design Studio; Basile Baumann Prost & Associates (2005-07). "Gallery Place/Chinatown - Metro Center Pedestrian Passageway Tunnel Study". WMATA Office of Planning and Project Development. http://www.wmata.com/pdfs/planning/Station%20Access/Gallery_Metro_Center_NoAppendices.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-06. 

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Coordinates: 38°53′54″N 77°01′41″W / 38.898303°N 77.028099°W / 38.898303; -77.028099


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