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Crystal City station (Washington Metro)

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Crystal City
WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Yellow.svg
An underground metro station with two side platforms in an arched concrete vault
Crystal City station in November 2010
General information
Location18th Street South and South Bell Street
Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates38°51′28″N 77°03′03″W / 38.857856°N 77.050874°W / 38.857856; -77.050874Coordinates: 38°51′28″N 77°03′03″W / 38.857856°N 77.050874°W / 38.857856; -77.050874
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsMainline rail interchange VRE (at Crystal City station)
Bus transport Arlington Transit: 43
Bus transport Fairfax Connector: 599
Bus transport Metrobus: 10N, 23A, 23B
Bus transport Metroway
Bus transport PRTC OmniRide
Bus transport Loudoun County Transit
Construction
Bicycle facilitiesCapital Bikeshare & 10 racks
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeC09
History
OpenedJuly 1, 1977 (July 1, 1977)
Passengers
20223,215 daily[1]
Rank20th
Services
Preceding station WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro Following station
National Airport
toward Franconia–Springfield or Huntington
 Blue Line
Plus
 Pentagon City
toward Downtown Largo or New Carrollton
National Airport
toward Huntington
 Yellow Line
suspended until May 2023
 Pentagon City
toward Greenbelt
Preceding station Metroway Following station
18th & Crystal
One-way operation
 Potomac Yard Pentagon City
Terminus
23rd & Clark
toward Braddock Road
Location
Map
For the nearby Virginia Railway Express station of the same name, see Crystal City station (VRE).

Crystal City station is an underground Washington Metro station in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, United States. The station opened on July 1, 1977 and serves the Blue Line and Yellow Line services, with a Metroway bus rapid transit stop on the surface.

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Washington Metro

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 service under the Metro name. Opened in 1976, the network now includes six lines, 97 stations, and 129 miles (208 km) of route.

Metro station

Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the system in the case of an emergency. In the United Kingdom, they are known as underground stations, most commonly used in reference to the London Underground.

Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia

Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia

Crystal City is an urban neighborhood in the southeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, south of Downtown Washington, D.C. Due to its extensive integration of office buildings and residential high-rise buildings using underground corridors, travel between stores, offices, and residences, it is possible to travel much of neighborhood without going above ground, making at least part of Crystal City an underground city.

Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C.. The county is coextensive with the U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the second-largest city in the Washington metropolitan area, although it does not have the legal designation of an independent city or incorporated town under Virginia state law.

Virginia

Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Its geography and climate are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay. The state's capital is Richmond. Its most-populous city is Virginia Beach, and Fairfax County is the state's most-populous political subdivision. Virginia's population in 2022 was over 8.68 million, with 35% living within in the Greater Washington metropolitan area.

United States

United States

The United States of America, commonly known as the United States or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City.

Blue Line (Washington Metro)

Blue Line (Washington Metro)

The Blue Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia; the District of Columbia; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Blue Line runs from Franconia–Springfield to Downtown Largo. The line shares tracks with the Orange Line for 13 stations, the Silver Line for 18, and the Yellow Line for six. Only three stations are exclusive to the Blue Line.

Yellow Line (Washington Metro)

Yellow Line (Washington Metro)

The Yellow Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system that runs between Huntington Station in Virginia and Greenbelt station in Maryland. It consists of 21 stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria County, and Arlington County in Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C. and Prince George's County, Maryland.

Metroway

Metroway

Metroway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) line operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) as part of their Metrobus system. It consists of a single line operating in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. It opened on August 24, 2014. It is the first bus rapid transit line to open in Virginia and in the Washington metropolitan area.

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability and other quality features than a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes roadways that are dedicated to buses, and gives priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside design features to reduce delays caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or paying fares. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a light rail or metro system with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.

Station layout

The station entrance in 2016
The station entrance in 2016

The station has two side platforms in a cylindrical vault, which runs east-west under plazas on the north side of 18th Street South between Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway and Crystal Drive. The fare mezzanine is located above the center of the platforms. The single station entrance is on the northwest corner of 18th Street South and South Bell Street, with a bank of escalators leading to an upper mezzanine.[2]: 15 

Located outside the station vault, the upper mezzanine has direct entrances to the underground Crystal City Shops. An elevator on the northeast corner of 18th Street South and South Bell Street connects directly to the lower mezzanine; each platform has one elevator from the mezzanine. Bus stops, including a Metroway stop served by both northbound and southbound buses, are located on South Bell Street under the 251 18th Street South building.[2]: 15 

History

Metrobus at the station in 2005
Metrobus at the station in 2005

The station opened on July 1, 1977, part of the 11.8-mile (19.0 km) initial segment of the Blue Line between National Airport and Stadium–Armory stations that opened that day.[3][4][5]

Virginia Railway Express began service in June 1992, with its Crystal City station about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) northeast of the Metro entrance.[6] Metroway bus rapid transit service began on August 24, 2014, with a stop on Bell Street adjacent to the Metro entrance.[7]

Second entrance

An east entrance to the station was proposed in a 2002 WMATA study.[2]: 1  Planning for the second entrance began in 2011.[2]: 4  A 2014 study identified five possible locations for the new entrance, with locations on the northeast and northwest corners of 18th Street South and Crystal Drive preferred.[2]: 53  In February 2019, the state committed to building the entrance as part of a package of transportation improvements for the construction of Amazon HQ2 in National Landing.[8] In May 2019, property developer JBG Smith sent an unsolicited proposal, proposing that Arlington County pay the company to act as design-build contractor for the entrance on company-owned property.[9] The county and company signed a preliminary agreement in June 2020.[10] Design of the second entrance reached 30% in March 2021.[11] In March 2022, plans were changed from an underground to a surface-level fare lobby to reduce costs.[12]

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Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)

Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)

Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. There are 269 bus routes serving 11,129 stops, including 2,554 bus shelters. In 2021, the system had a ridership of 60,603,600, or about 284,800 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2022.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station is a Washington Metro station in Arlington, 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. It is one of only two stations in the system to have three tracks. 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 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.

Stadium–Armory station

Stadium–Armory station

Stadium–Armory is a Washington Metro station located in Southeast, Washington, D.C. The station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Stadium–Armory serves the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines. It is a transfer station, as this is the last station shared by the three lines before the lines diverge going east; east of the station, all three lines rise above ground onto elevated track to cross over the Anacostia River. At the diverge point, the Orange Line continues above ground veering northbound, and the Blue and Silver Lines continue eastbound entering a tunnel.

Virginia Railway Express

Virginia Railway Express

Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station in Bristow, Virginia. In 2021, the system had a ridership of 530,700, or about 5,600 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2022.

Crystal City station (VRE)

Crystal City station (VRE)

Crystal City station is a commuter rail station in the Crystal City section of Arlington, Virginia, located near the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Ronald Reagan National Airport. It is served by the Fredericksburg Line and Manassas Line of the Virginia Railway Express system. VRE plans to rebuild the station nearby to accommodate longer trains and increased service.

Metroway

Metroway

Metroway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) line operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) as part of their Metrobus system. It consists of a single line operating in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. It opened on August 24, 2014. It is the first bus rapid transit line to open in Virginia and in the Washington metropolitan area.

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability and other quality features than a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes roadways that are dedicated to buses, and gives priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside design features to reduce delays caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or paying fares. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a light rail or metro system with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.

Amazon HQ2

Amazon HQ2

Amazon HQ2 is Amazon's corporate headquarters in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia and is an expansion of the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

National Landing

National Landing

National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria. It is the location of the Amazon HQ2 headquarters. The neighborhood was branded and announced as "National Landing" in 2018 as a part of local economic development plans to bring Amazon HQ2 to the area. The announcement also included plans to build a graduate-school satellite university campus of Virginia Tech in the area. The "National Landing" name derives, in part, from the area's proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

JBG Smith

JBG Smith

JBG SMITH Properties is a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Source: "Crystal City station (Washington Metro)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 22nd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_City_station_(Washington_Metro).

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References
  1. ^ "Rail Ridership Data Viewer". WMATA. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Crystal City Station Access and Second Entrance Study" (PDF). City of Arlington. February 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  3. ^ Feaver, Douglas B. (July 1, 1977). "Today, Metro could be U.S. model". The Washington Post. p. A1.
  4. ^ "Metro's newest stations: Where they are, what's nearby". The Washington Post. June 24, 1977.
  5. ^ "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 2017. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Fehr, Stephen; Sanchez, Carlos (June 18, 1992). "Getting On Track". Washington Post. ProQuest 408134230. Archived from the original on August 5, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  7. ^ "Metroway premium transit service starting this summer" (Press release). WMATA. July 1, 2014. Archived from the original on February 15, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2016.}
  8. ^ Lazo, Luz (February 16, 2019). "Amazon deal delivers 'certainty' for key transportation projects in Northern Virginia". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  9. ^ Repetski, Stephen (July 23, 2019). "Metro Reasons: JBG Smith wants to build a new Crystal City station entrance". Greater Greater Washington. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  10. ^ Repetski, Stephen (June 12, 2020). "Plans for Crystal City Metro's second entrance are moving forward". Greater Greater Washington. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "Crystal City Metrorail Station East Entrance: Question and Answer Session" (PDF). City of Arlington. March 31, 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  12. ^ DeVoe, Jo (March 18, 2022). "Plans for Crystal City Metro second entrance changed to lower costs". ARLNow. Archived from the original on April 1, 2022. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
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