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East Falls Church station is an island platformed Washington Metro station in Arlington County, Virginia, on the Orange and Silver Lines. East Falls Church station is the last aboveground, at-grade, or open-cut station for eastbound trains until Minnesota Avenue .
SR 338 heads east as a two-lane undivided street through a residential area. Shortly after leaving Falls Church and entering Fairfax County, the state highway reaches its eastern terminus at a seven-way junction with US 50 (Arlington Boulevard), SR 7 (Leesburg Pike), and SR 613, which heads north as Wilson Boulevard and south as Sleepy Hollow Road.
On July 26, 2014, Orange Line stations between East Falls Church and Stadium-Armory began to serve Silver Line trains. From March 26, 2020 until June 28, 2020, trains were bypassing East Falls Church, Virginia Square–GMU, Clarendon, Federal Triangle, Smithsonian, Federal Center SW, and Cheverly stations due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
US 29 and SR 237 cosigned in Merrifield. SR 237 begins at an intersection with SR 236 (Main Street) at the eastern edge of Fairfax.The state highway heads north as Pickett Road, a four-lane divided highway that parallels the eastern boundary of the city between a pair of shopping centers, an oil depot, a country club, and a park within which the highway crosses Accotink Creek.
West Falls Church–Annandale line: 76.57: 123.23: Fairview Park Drive to I-495 Express south / US 29 (Lee Highway) Interchange; signed for I-495 westbound and US 29 eastbound: West Falls Church: 78.71: 126.67: SR 649 (Annandale Road) – Falls Church, Annandale: Seven Corners: 79.73: 128.31: SR 7 to SR 338 – Falls Church, Alexandria
Falls Church City is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,658. [4] Falls Church is part of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.
On June 24, 2020, WMATA announced that Silver Line service would resume three weeks early when trains are able to bypass East Falls Church. [104] [105] All Silver Line service resumed on August 16, 2020, when Silver and Orange Line trains were able to bypass East Falls Church. [106] East Falls Church reopened on August 23, 2020. [107]
[2] [3] Through Northern Virginia, it is known as the Lee Highway, except in Falls Church, where it acts as the east–west divider for city streets and is called North or South Washington Street, and Arlington, where it was renamed Langston Boulevard in July 2021 in honor of John Mercer Langston. [4]