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Location | 2400 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, Virginia | ||||||||||
Owned by | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 10 racks, 6 lockers | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Station code | C14 | ||||||||||
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Opened | December 17, 1983 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2019 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2023 | 868 daily [1] | ||||||||||
Rank | 85 out of 98 | ||||||||||
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Eisenhower Avenue station is a rapid transit station on the Yellow Line of the Washington Metro in Alexandria, Virginia. It opened on December 17, 1983.
The station is located at Eisenhower Avenue near Stovall Street, next to the Capital Beltway and the Hoffman Town Center entertainment complex. The station provides connections to Metro's REX (Richmond Highway Express) bus service and the DASH bus service run by the city of Alexandria.
Originally scheduled to open in summer 1982, its opening was delayed due to both unavailability of new subway cars and the lack of a test track. [2] Construction of the station was complete by summer 1982, [3] and in September 1983 Metro announced the station would open that December as the new cars would be ready for service. [4] The station opened on December 17, 1983. [5] Its opening coincided with the completion of 4.2 miles (6.8 km) [6] of rail between the National Airport and Huntington stations and the opening of the Braddock Road, Huntington, and King Street–Old Town stations. [5]
In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system. The Blue and Yellow Lines south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station, including the Eisenhower Avenue station, would be closed from May to September 2019, during which the platforms at this station would be rebuilt. [7] [8]
From March 26, 2020 until June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. [9] [10] [11]
Between September 10, 2022, and November 5, 2022, Eisenhower Avenue was closed due to the Potomac Yard station tie-in, closing all stations south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station. Shuttle buses were provided throughout the shutdown. [12] Additionally, beginning on November 6, 2022, Blue Line trains began serving Eisenhower Avenue due to the suspension of the Yellow Line from the 14th Street Bridge project. Trains operated between Huntington and New Carrollton stations [13] until May 7, 2023, when service on the Yellow Line resumed but truncated from its northeastern terminus from Greenbelt to Mount Vernon Square. [14]
Eisenhower Avenue station is one of only two elevated side-platformed stations in the Metro system (the other being West Hyattsville). Access to each platform is provided by a pair of escalators and an elevator. It is also one of only two stations that are serviced exclusively by the Yellow Line, the other being Huntington.
T Platform level | Side platform | |
Northbound | toward Mount Vernon Square (King Street–Old Town) → | |
Southbound | ← toward Huntington (Terminus) | |
Side platform | ||
S | Street level | Exit/entrance, buses, fare gates, ticket machines, station manager |
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