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Huntington station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Huntington area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States (though its mailing address says Alexandria). The station was opened on December 17, 1983, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
Station Code Opened Image Other Metro Line(s) Notes Huntington: C15: December 17, 1983 Southern terminus Eisenhower Avenue: C14 King Street–Old Town: C13 at Alexandria Union Station Transfer station for the Blue Line (southern) Braddock Road: C12 Potomac Yard: C11: May 19, 2023 Infill station: National Airport: C10: July 1, 1977 Crystal City: C09
The Silver Line opened in two phases, adding five stations in 2014 and six in 2022. [4] [5] On the Yellow and Blue Lines, an additional infill station at Potomac Yard opened on May 19, 2023. [6] Nine Metrorail stations are officially designated transfer stations, although other intermediate stations also allow passengers to transfer between lines.
Huntington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 11,267 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is located next to the southern border of the city of Alexandria and is part of the Washington metropolitan area .
Beginning on November 27, 2020, until March 14, 2021, Blue Line trains began serving Huntington and Eisenhower Avenue stations during most weekends due to Metro modernizing the signal system at Alexandria Rail Yard causing both Franconia–Springfield and Van Dorn Street stations to be closed. Additionally, trains operated to Huntington between ...
The first buses rolled out in September 1985 as a lower-cost alternative to the Metrobus service of the regional Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. [1] The original routes connected the southern part of the county (near the Mount Vernon Estate) to the Huntington Metro station which borders Alexandria.
The Alexandria–Pentagon Line, designated as Routes 10A, 10E & 10N, is a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Huntington station of the Yellow Line of the Washington Metro (10A), Hunting Point (10E), or Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station of the Yellow and Blue lines of the Washington Metro and Pentagon station of the Yellow and ...
The station reverted to its original name, Gallery Place, on November 3, 2011, with "Chinatown" listed as a subtitle. [7] This station has been a testing ground for new features in Metro stations. In 1993, the station was one of the first Metro stations to receive tactile edging on its platforms. Since 2004, the station has been the site of ...