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Metro Center Station
Metro Center station is the central hub station of the Washington Metro, a rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. The station is located in Downtown, centered on the intersection of 12th Street NW and G Street NW. It is one of the 4 major transfer points in the Metrorail network. The Red Line portion of Metro Center station opened on March 27, 1976, as part of the first section of the Metro system. The station averaged 10,587 daily riders in 2023, making it the busiest in the system. Station layout Metro Center station is laid out in two underground levels in a cross shape centered on the intersection of 12th Street NW and G Street NW. The lower level runs north-south under 12th Street between F Street and H Street, with one island platform for the Orange Line, Silver Line, and Blue Line. The upper level runs east-west under G Street between 11th Street and 13th Street, with two side platforms for the Red Line, with wide corridors above the lower level platform and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Metro
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates the Metrobus (Washington, D.C.), Metrobus service under the Metro name. Opened in 1976, the network now includes six lines, 98 stations, and of Network length (transport)#Route length, route. Metro serves Washington, D.C. and the states of Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Metro provides service to Montgomery County, Maryland, Montgomery and Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's counties; in Virginia, to Arlington County, Virginia, Arlington, Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax and Loudoun County, Virginia, Loudoun counties, and to the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria. The system's Potomac Yard station, most recent expansion, which is the construction of a new station (and alte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMATA
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA ), commonly referred to as Metro, is a tri-jurisdictional public transit agency that operates transit services in the Washington metropolitan area. WMATA provides rapid transit service under the Metrorail name, fixed-route bus service under the Metrobus brand, and paratransit service under the MetroAccess brand. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The agency participates in regional transportation planning and the execution of transit infrastructure projects. Recent projects include an infill station serving Potomac Yard and an extension of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport. WMATA was created in the late 1960s by the United States Congress as an interstate compact between Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The authority's board of directors consists of two voting representatives each from the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and the U.S. federal governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallery Place–Chinatown Station
Gallery Place station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., United States, on the Green, Yellow and Red Lines. It is one of the 4 major transfer points, a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the Green/Yellow Lines on the lower level. Gallery Place is located in Northwest Washington, with entrances at 7th and F, 7th and H, and 9th and G Streets. The station's only street elevator is north of F Street on the east side of 7th Street. The station, which is beneath Capital One Arena, serves that arena and the surrounding Chinatown and Penn Quarter neighborhoods in downtown Washington. Station layout Like other downtown transfer stations, Gallery Place has a two-level configuration. However, unlike Metro Center and L'Enfant Plaza, where the platforms cross centrally, the Green and Yellow Line platforms are located near the east end of the station, resulting in an off-balance layout. This is a result of the Green and Yellow Lines' location be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Falls Church Station
East Falls Church station is an island platformed Washington Metro station in Arlington County, Virginia, on the Orange and Silver Lines. East Falls Church station is the last aboveground, at-grade, or open-cut station for eastbound trains until Minnesota Avenue. East of this station, the trains enter tunnels. The station serves the communities of Falls Church, Seven Corners, and Arlington. It is located in the median of Interstate 66 near Lee Highway (U.S. Route 29). Service began on June 7, 1986. A parking lot with 422 spaces sits on the Lee Highway side of the station. Transit-oriented development East Falls Church has the least transit-oriented development of the six stations on the Orange Line in Arlington County. Unlike the stations from Rosslyn to Ballston, East Falls Church station is in the median of Interstate 66, where it is difficult to access for pedestrians. As of 2018, Arlington County was considering plans to develop the site. History The station was built as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Carrollton Station
New Carrollton station is a joint Washington Metro, MARC Train, MARC, and Amtrak station just outside the city limits of New Carrollton, Maryland, New Carrollton, Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland located at the eastern end of the Metro's Orange Line (Washington Metro), Orange Line. The station will also serve as the eastern terminus of the Purple Line (Maryland), Purple Line, currently under construction, and is adjacent to the Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Capital Beltway. Beneath the Metro station platform, a waiting room serves Amtrak's ''Northeast Regional'', ''Vermonter (train), Vermonter'', and ''Palmetto (train), Palmetto'' trains, as well as MARC's Penn Line trains. The New Carrollton Rail Yard is nearby. Greyhound Lines, Greyhound, a nationwide intercity bus company, also stops at the station on routes serving Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, Washington, D.C., Washington, Philadelphia, New York City, Pittsburgh, and points beyond. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Station
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station is a Washington Metro station in Arlington County, Virginia on the Blue and Yellow Lines. The station platform is elevated and covered and is the last above-ground station on the Yellow Line in Virginia, heading into Washington, D.C. The promise is one of only two stations in the system to have three tracks; the other is . The station is located across Smith Boulevard from Terminal 2 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; the mezzanine is directly connected to Level 2 of the terminal (security checkpoints/gates level) by two pedestrian bridges. Airport shuttle buses or a walkway connect the station and Terminal 1. The airport's Abingdon Plantation historical site is near the station. History The station opened on July 1, 1977. Its opening coincided with the completion of of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of the , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and stations. When service began on July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Station
Rhode Island Avenue station (also known as Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood) is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. The station is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Northeast, on an elevated platform crossing Rhode Island Avenue NE (U.S. Route 1) History The station was built on land formerly part of the African-American Columbian Harmony Cemetery. When the station was constructed in 1976, workers discovered that not all the bodies had been moved. At least five coffins were unearthed, and numerous bones. A plaque was affixed to a column near one of the station's entrances to commemorate the former cemetery. When a parking lot at the site was renovated in 1979, more bones and bits of cloth and coffins were unearthed. Service began on March 27, 1976, as one of the first stations in the system, opening as the eastern terminus of the Red Line. It was replaced as the eastern terminus by Silver Spring on February 6, 1978. From the time the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farragut North Station
Farragut North station is an underground Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., located on the Red Line. The station serves Downtown Washington and is immediately northwest of Farragut Square. With an average of 7,615 daily riders in 2023, Farragut North was the sixth-busiest stop in the system. History Farragut North was one of the original five stations to open with the first section of the Red Line on March 27, 1976. It was the western terminus of the Red Line until January 17, 1977, when Dupont Circle opened. In 1992, the station coffer was painted white. On February 12, 2010 at approximately 10:13 a.m. a train derailed in the pocket track immediately to the north of the station when the front car left the tracks. Of the approximately 345 passengers on board, one person was transported to the hospital. All of the passengers were evacuated without incident. The cause of the derailment was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. It was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Graham
Jackson Graham (June 27, 1915 – March 2, 1985) was a major general of the Army Corps of Engineers in the United States Army and was the first general manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Early life and education He was born in Mosier, Oregon, and during high school he joined his father, a bridge construction foreman on the construction of the main piers of the Golden Gate Bridge as well as several other projects. He received a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Oregon State University in 1936. He was student body president at OSU during his senior year and served in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Military service Finishing in the top 3 percent on an army exam, he won a regular army engineering commission. He served with two combat engineer units in the European Theater during World War II and commanded three heavy pontoon battalions at Remagen. He gained the temporary rank of colonel just days before V-E day. During the Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
