Dupont Circle (WMATA station)

Dupont Circle (WMATA station)
Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle Metro.JPG
Station statistics
Address 1525 20th Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20036
Lines
Connections Metrobus
DC Circulator
MTA Maryland Commuter Bus
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Bicycle facilities 16 racks, 12 lockers
Other information
Opened January 17, 1977; 34 years ago (January 17, 1977)[1]
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Code A03
Owned by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 8.392 million[2]
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station
Woodley Park
toward Shady Grove
Red Line
Farragut North
toward Glenmont
Location
Dupont Circle (WMATA station) is located in Washington, D.C.
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Dupont Circle is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Red Line that opened for service on January 17, 1977.[1]

The station, which serves the neighborhood of Dupont Circle, has two entrances: the north entrance, on Q Street Northwest between Connecticut Avenue and 20th Street Northwest (which opened in January 1977), and the south entrance, on 19th Street Northwest between Dupont Circle and Sunderland Place (which opened in March 1977).[1] The station's north entrance escalators are 188 feet (57 m) long.[3]

Panorama of the north entrance with inscribed poem.

The station was constructed underneath a former streetcar tunnel and another tunnel that carries Connecticut Avenue traffic. It is the fifth-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 23,400 passengers per weekday as of May 2006.[4]

In 2007, a portion of the poem The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators:[5]

    Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
    Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals;
    The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
    I sit by the restless all the dark night - some are so young;
    Some suffer so much - I recall the experience sweet and sad,...

Notable places nearby

References

  1. ^ a b c Eisen, Jack (January 18, 1977). "Circle greets wind tunnel Metro stop". The Washington Post: p. C3. 
  2. ^ Neighborhood profiles WDCEP Retrieved 2011-10-19
  3. ^ Karush, Sarah. 'Friday the 13th' blackout hits nation's capital. Associated Press. The Baltimore Sun. 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
  4. ^ "Request for Expressions of Interest for Operation of Retail Services in Metrorail Stations". WMATA. 2007-02-16. http://www.wmata.com/bus2bus/reoi/reoi.pdf. 
  5. ^ Mathis, Sommer (2007-06-05). "Dupont Metro gets poetry". DCist. http://dcist.com/2007/06/05/dupont_metro_ge.php. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 

External links

Coordinates: 38°54′34″N 77°02′37″W / 38.909499°N 77.04362°W / 38.909499; -77.04362


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