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Dupont Circle station

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Dupont Circle
WMATA Red.svg
Dupont Circle Station.jpg
Dupont Circle station in 2005
General information
Location1525 20th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Coordinates38°54′34″N 77°02′37″W / 38.909499°N 77.04362°W / 38.909499; -77.04362Coordinates: 38°54′34″N 77°02′37″W / 38.909499°N 77.04362°W / 38.909499; -77.04362
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport Metrobus: 37, 42, D1, D2, D6, G2, H1, L1, N2, N4, N6
Bus transport DC Circulator
  Rosslyn–Georgetown–Dupont Circle
Bus transport Georgetown University Shuttle
Construction
Bicycle facilitiesCapital Bikeshare, 16 racks and 12 lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeA03
History
OpenedJanuary 17, 1977 (1977-Jan-17)[1]
Passengers
20225,834 daily[2]
Rank5th
Services
Preceding station WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro Following station
Woodley Park
toward Shady Grove
 Red Line Farragut North
toward Glenmont
Location

Dupont Circle station is an underground rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in Washington, D.C. Located below the circle of the same name, it is one of the busiest stations in the Metro system, with an average of 16,948 entries each weekday.[3] The station parallels Connecticut Avenue NW between the southern edge of the circle to the south and Q Street NW to the north.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be called a subway, tube, or underground. Unlike buses or trams, rapid transit systems are railways, usually electric, that operate on an exclusive right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles. They are often grade-separated in tunnels or on elevated railways.

Red Line (Washington Metro)

Red Line (Washington Metro)

The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a primary line through downtown Washington and the oldest and busiest line in the system. It forms a long, narrow "U", capped by its terminal stations at Shady Grove and Glenmont.

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.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern border with Virginia, and it also borders Maryland to its north and east. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father, commanding general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, and the first President of the United States, and the district is named for Columbia, the female personification of the nation.

Dupont Circle

Dupont Circle

Dupont Circle is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Dupont Circle neighborhood is bounded approximately by 16th Street NW to the east, 22nd Street NW to the west, M Street NW to the south, and Florida Avenue NW to the north. Much of the neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, the local government Advisory Neighborhood Commission and the Dupont Circle Historic District have slightly different boundaries.

Connecticut Avenue

Connecticut Avenue

Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. It is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House, and the segment south of Florida Avenue was one of the original streets in Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington. A five-mile segment north of Rock Creek was built in the 1890s by a real-estate developer.

Station layout

Dupont Circle station has two tracks with side platforms, one of the only Red Line stations with this setup. This single-bore layout is required by its deep passage beneath the Connecticut Avenue NW underpass and an abandoned streetcar tunnel, now used as an art space. The station's depth required construction using rock-tunneling methods.[4]

There are two entrances to the station. The north entrance, on the southeast corner of Q Street NW and 20th Street NW contains a set of three escalators and an elevator to reach a mezzanine and fare control at the north end of the station. Unique to the station, the edges of the escalators are trellised with plants where normally there would be granite slabs. The south entrance, located on the southern edge of Dupont Circle at 19th Street NW and Connecticut Avenue NW, has another set of three escalators to reach a separate mezzanine and fare control at the south end of the platforms. The station's north entrance escalators are 188 feet (57 m) long. Its south entrance escalators are 170 feet (52 m) long and rise 85 feet (26 m).[5][6]

History

South entrance escalators
South entrance escalators

Dupont Circle station opened on January 17, 1977, the first to open after the original stretch of the Red Line between Union Station and Farragut North.[1] It remained the western terminus of the Red Line until December 5, 1981, upon the extension of the line to Van Ness–UDC.

On May 6, 2000, a woman fell between the tracks but was unharmed as the train passed over her. The station was temporarily closed and the woman was extracted from under the train as power had been shut off.[7] In May 2006, a Metro employee died after being struck by a train in the station.[8]

In 2007, a portion of Walt Whitman's 1865 poem The Wound Dresser was inscribed into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators to honor the city's caregivers during the HIV crisis.[9][10][11]

The south entrance was closed from February 1 to October 21, 2012, to replace all three escalators, deemed among the system's least reliable.[12][13]

On January 15, 2018, a train headed to Glenmont derailed outside the station. Nobody was seriously hurt.[14]

In April 2019, construction began on a station canopy for the north entrance, identical to other canopies across the system. Construction is completed in summer 2022.[15] However, construction was delayed due to the contractor that was supposed to provide the custom glass panels going bankrupt.[16]

During the afternoon of December 10, 2019, smoke was reported from an arcing insulator at Woodley Park station causing service to be suspended between Dupont Circle and Van Ness–UDC. Red Line trains were later forced to single track between Friendship Heights and Van Ness due to another arcing insulator failure.[17][18]

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Union Station (Washington Metro)

Union Station (Washington Metro)

Union Station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Red Line. It has a single underground island platform.

Farragut North station

Farragut North station

Farragut North station is an underground Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.

Van Ness–UDC station

Van Ness–UDC station

Van Ness–UDC station is an island platformed Washington Metro station serving the Forest Hills and North Cleveland Park neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on December 5, 1981, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Red Line, the station is on the 4200 block of Connecticut Avenue Northwest, with exits on either side of Connecticut Avenue. The station is also close to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), as well as to both Howard University School of Law and the Edmund Burke School.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality.

Granite

Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous intrusions. These range in size from dikes only a few centimeters across to batholiths exposed over hundreds of square kilometers.

Woodley Park station

Woodley Park station

Woodley Park station is an underground station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located at 24th Street and Connecticut Avenue Northwest, it serves the neighborhoods of Woodley Park and Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington.

Source: "Dupont Circle station", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 9th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Circle_station.

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Further Reading

Tenleytown–AU station

Metro Center station

Foggy Bottom–GWU station

Red Line (Washington Metro)

Farragut North station

Woodley Park station

Cleveland Park station

Van Ness–UDC station

Friendship Heights station

Bethesda station

Medical Center station (Washington Metro)

Shady Grove station

Takoma station

Grosvenor–Strathmore station

Rosslyn station

Federal Triangle station

King Street–Old Town station

Mount Vernon Square station
References
  1. ^ a b Eisen, Jack (January 18, 1977). "Circle greets wind tunnel Metro stop". The Washington Post. p. C3.
  2. ^ "Rail Ridership Data Viewer". WMATA. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  3. ^ "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  4. ^ "See some of the reasons why Metrorail is hard to maintain". Washington Post. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  5. ^ Johnson, Matt (July 8, 2014). "What are the 10 longest Metro escalators?". Greater Greater Washington. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Hedgpeth, Dana (January 24, 2012). "Metro's Dupont Circle escalators are getting their due: Replacement". The Washington Post. ProQuest 917272078. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  7. ^ "Woman Survives Plunge Before Train". The Washington Post. May 7, 2000. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Weiss, Eric M. (January 9, 2007). "Federal Investigators Question Metro's Safety". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  9. ^ Mathis, Sommer (June 5, 2007). "Dupont Metro gets poetry". DCist. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Peck, Garrett (2015). Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1626199736.
  11. ^ Kelly, John (May 18, 2013). "Hark, what poem leaps from yonder Metro wall?". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  12. ^ "Dupont Circle south entrance to close Wednesday, Feb. 1, for escalator replacement" (Press release). WMATA. January 30, 2012.
  13. ^ "Metro completes escalator replacement project at Dupont Circle south entrance" (Press release). WMATA. October 21, 2012.
  14. ^ Iacone, Amanda; Kelleher, Colleen (January 15, 2018). "Red Line train derails near Metro Center". WTOP. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  15. ^ Giambrone, Andrew (April 15, 2019). "Dupont Circle Metro station entrance to get precipitation-shielding escalator canopy". Curbed Washington DC. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  16. ^ Graf, Heather (January 17, 2020). "Metro: Bankrupt contractor to blame for delayed escalator canopy at Dupont Circle station". WJLA. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  17. ^ Muntean, Pete (December 11, 2019). "The Red Line caught on fire three times Tuesday, but WMATA says it's getting better". wusa9.com. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  18. ^ Haynes, Madisson (December 10, 2019). "Metro Red line suspended again after smoke reported on tracks twice in a day". wusa9.com. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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