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Operates limited-stop service along Duke Street between King St-Old Town Station & Landmark Mall, local stops provided by DASH 30. 29N was extended from Fairfax Circle to Vienna Station. 29K, 29N discontinued service between Royal & Pendleton Streets and King Street Station December 29, 2013. [9] 29N operates on Sundays as of August 24, 2014. [34]
Construction began in 1969, and in 1976 the first section of the Metro system opened along the Red Line between the Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue stations in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, more stations were opened in the city and the suburban communities of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and Fairfax County ...
King Street–Old Town station (also known by its former name, King Street) is a Washington Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The station opened on December 17, 1983, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
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.
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). Serving as the southern terminus for the ...
It is located directly across the tracks from the King Street–Old Town station of the Washington Metro. Since the opening of the Metro station in 1983, the city has touted the station as an intermodal hub for regional mass transit, linking Amtrak, VRE, and Metro with a number of Alexandria DASH and Metrobus lines. [5]
The station opened on June 15, 1991, with the completion of 3.9 miles (6.3 km) of rail west of the King Street – Old Town station. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Van Dorn Street would remain as the southwestern terminus of the Blue Line from its completion through the opening of the Franconia–Springfield station on June 29, 1997.
On April 19, 2023, WMATA and Alexandria announced that the station would open on May 19, 2023. [33] The station opened at 5 a.m. that day, [34] [35] with "regional, state, and federal officials" attending an opening ceremony at 10:30 a.m. [2] It was the Washington Metro's second infill station, after NoMa–Gallaudet U station. [34]