Metro Center (Washington Metro)
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- This article is about the station on the Washington Metro. For the MetroCentre shopping centre, see MetroCentre.
Metro Center is on the Blue, Orange, and Red Lines, and is a transfer station between the Red Line and the other two lines. It is also scheduled to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2011. Metro Center, by far the busiest station in terms of ridership, is located in downtown Washington, under an area roughly extending east-west from 11th to 13th Streets Northwest, and north-south from G 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. A Metro sales office is located near the 12th and F Street entrance. The Grand Hyatt Washington is connected to Metro Center.
The station is located so close to the Gallery Place-Chinatown station that the lights of each station are visible to the other through the tunnel. Metro's Capital Improvement Plan dated September 12, 2002 includes a pedestrian tunnel to be built between the two stations, connected at the mezzanine levels. Metro Center was one of the original Metro stations, and service began on March 27, 1976.
Notable places nearby
- Ford's Theater
- Inter-American Development Bank
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- National Press Club Building
- Warner Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
External links
- WMATA: [Metro Center Station]
- StationMasters Online: [Metro Center Station]
- The Schumin Web Transit Center: [Metro Center Station (Upper Level)]
- The Schumin Web Transit Center: [Metro Center Station (Lower Level)]
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