Cleveland Park (Washington Metro)

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Cleveland Park
Station statistics
Address 3559 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Lines      Red Line
Connections WMATA Metrobus
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Bicycle facilities 16 racks, 12 lockers
Other information
Opened December 5, 1981
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Code A05
Owned by WMATA
Traffic
Passengers (2007) 1.293 million ▼ 2%
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station
Red Line
toward Glenmont

Cleveland Park is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Red Line. Service began on December 5, 1981.

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[edit] Location

The station serves the residential Cleveland Park neighborhood in Northwestern Washington. Its principal attraction is the National Zoo; the zoo is not only a downhill walk from this station, but also 106 feet closer from Cleveland Park than from Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan. Across Porter Street NW lies the Adas Israel Congregation, the District's largest Conservative Jewish synagogue.[1]

[edit] Station layout

There are two entrances to the station, both on Connecticut Avenue but on opposite sides of the street between Ordway Street NW and Porter Street NW. Each of these street-level entrances contains an escalator and a staircase leading to a middle landing that joins the two entrances underground. A further row of three escalators leads to the station concourse where passengers may buy tickets from vending machines and pass through faregates.[2] An escalator and staircase lead down from the faregates to the platform.[2] An elevator from street level to the concourse is available on the northeastern corner of the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and Ordway Street NW and an elevator is available between the concourse and platform after passing through the faregates.[1][2]

Cleveland Park station utilises the island platform layout with two tracks, A1 and A2. Glenmont-bound trains use track A1 whilst Shady Grove-bound trains use track A2. A pair of crossovers north of the station are remnants of its status as the penultimate station of the Red Line from its opening until August 25, 1984, when the Red Line was extended westward once again to Grosvenor-Strathmore (originally known as "Grosvenor," other extensions have taken place since then).

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Cleveland Park station: Connecticut Avenue exit WMATA Retrieved 2009-01-24
  2. ^ a b c Cleveland Park station WMATA Retrieved 2008-01-24

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