Cleveland Park station

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Washington Metro rapid transit station
General information
Location	3559 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008
Coordinates	38°56′9.5″N 77°3′30.7″W
Owned by	WMATA
Line(s)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Metrobus: D32, H2, H3, H4, L1, L2, W47
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Bicycle facilities	16 racks, 12 lockers
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	A05
History
Opened	December 5, 1981 (December 5, 1981)
Passengers
2016	3,829 daily   12.3%
Services
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Cleveland Park is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located in the neighborhood of the same name in Washington DC, it opened on December 5, 1981.

Location

The station serves the residential Cleveland Park neighborhood in Northwestern Washington. Its principal attraction is the National Zoological Park; 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 station. Across Porter Street NW lies the Adas Israel Congregation, the District's largest Conservative Jewish synagogue.

History

While Cleveland Park was part of the initial system plan in 1959, the station opened on December 5, 1981, five years after the first segment began operations. Its opening coincided with the completion of 2.1 miles (3.4 km) of rail northwest of the Dupont Circle station and the opening of Van Ness–UDC and Woodley Park–Zoo stations.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
P Platform level	Westbound	← toward Shady Grove (Van Ness–UDC)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Eastbound	→ toward Glenmont (Woodley Park) →

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, which houses fare control; here passengers may buy SmarTrip cards from vending machines and pass through the faregates. An escalator and staircase lead down from the faregates to the platform. 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.

Cleveland Park station utilizes the island platform layout with two tracks, A1 and A2. Glenmont-bound trains use track A1 while 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; other extensions have taken place since then.

Architecture

Architecturally, Cleveland Park is similar to other stations along the underground stretch of the Red Line between Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan and Medical Center. Because of the high cost of the waffle design and the relative large depth of these stations, pre-fabricated concrete segments were shipped to the construction site and placed together to form the structure of the station, resulting in a four-coffer station design.

External links

• WMATA: Cleveland Park Station
• StationMasters Online: Cleveland Park Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Cleveland Park Station
• Ordway Street entrance from Google Maps Street View