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The escalator to street level at the Rosslyn Metro station is the fifth longest continuous span escalator in the D.C. metro system. [6]The station has entrances on the west side of North Moore Street between Wilson Boulevard and 19th Street North and on the east side of Fort Myer Drive between Wilson Boulevard and 19th Street North.
The station contains 230-foot-long (70 m) escalators, which are the longest set of single-span escalators in the Western Hemisphere. Service at Wheaton began on September 22, 1990, and it was the northeastern end of the Red Line for nearly eight years, until Glenmont opened in July 1998.
Pylon by the entrance to the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter station Passengers boarding a train at the Bethesda station Crossvault of the L'Enfant Plaza station Union Station, the busiest station in the system The longest continuous escalator in the western hemisphere, at the Wheaton station [5] Vaulted ceiling at Farragut West Largo Town Center station, one of the newest stations ...
The station features the second-longest continuous escalator in the Metro system at 194 feet (59 m); an escalator ride between the street and mezzanine levels takes nearly two minutes. [89] The system is not centered on any single station, but Metro Center is at the intersection of the Red, Orange, Blue, and Silver Lines. [90]
Deepest station on the Metrorail network. The only station without escalators—elevators being the only way to access the platforms. Wheaton: B10: N/A: At 230 feet long, this station has the longest escalators in the western hemisphere. Glenmont: B11: July 25, 1998: N/A: Northeastern terminus
The Metro Fact .pdf link off the main Washington Metro page says the escalator is 230 feet long. Here on this page, it says the escalator is 508 feet long while the station is 230 feet deep. However, the Forest Glenn Station is 196 feet deep according to the aforementiond Metro Fact page. Given a 30 degree angle (standard on escalators, I ...
Dupont Circle station is an underground rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in Washington, D.C. Located below the traffic circle, it is one of the busiest stations in the Metro system, with an average of 16,948 entries each weekday. [3]
The station is one of 11 stations in the system constructed with rock tunneling and is accordingly deeper than most stations in the system. [5] Its platform is more than 100 feet (30 m) below its north entrance. [6] The escalator has a length of 130 feet (40 m) and rises 65 feet (20 m) feet above the mezzanine level. [7]