Rosslyn station

Rosslyn
Washington Metro rapid transit station
Location	1850 North Moore Street Arlington, VA 22209
Owned by	WMATA
Line(s)	Blue Line Orange Line Silver Line
Platforms	2 split platforms (1 on each level)
Tracks	2 (1 on each level)
Connections	Arlington Transit: 45, 55, 61 Metrobus: 4A, 4B, 5A, 10R, 10S, 15K, 38B DC Circulator Loudoun County Transit Georgetown University Shuttle
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Bicycle facilities	20 racks
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	C05
History
Opened	July 1, 1977
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	15,460 daily [1]  1.1%
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station Arlington Cemetery toward Franconia–Springfield Blue Line Foggy Bottom – GWU toward Largo Town Center Court House toward Vienna Orange Line Foggy Bottom – GWU toward New Carrollton Court House toward Wiehle – Reston East Silver Line Foggy Bottom – GWU toward Largo Town Center

Rosslyn /ˈrɒzlᵻn/ is the westernmost station on the shared segment of the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines of the Washington Metro. It is located in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, USA. Rosslyn is the first station in Virginia heading westward from the District on the Orange and Silver Lines and southward on the Blue Lines. It is one of four interchange points on the Metrorail system west of the Potomac River and located in a growing business district.

Depending on the year, Rosslyn is the busiest, or one of the busiest stations outside of the District of Columbia, along with Pentagon City and Pentagon, which are also in Arlington. Rosslyn is the biggest choke point of the Metro system. Due to this, planners are considering adding another station in the Rosslyn neighborhood, possibly as part of an inner loop through Washington and Arlington.^[2]

Location

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. A bank of three high-speed street elevators to the mezzanine (upper) level of the station is on the east side of North Moore Street, across the street from the Metro station entrance. The station is a stop for several express Metrobus lines, including the 5A to Washington Dulles International Airport and L'Enfant Plaza.

History

The station opened on July 1, 1977.^[3] Its opening coincided with the completion of 11.8 miles (19.0 km)^[4] of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of the Arlington Cemetery, Capitol South, Crystal City, Eastern Market, Farragut West, Federal Center SW, Federal Triangle, Foggy Bottom–GWU, L'Enfant Plaza, McPherson Square, National Airport, Pentagon, Pentagon City, Potomac Avenue, Smithsonian and Stadium–Armory stations.^[5] Orange Line service to the station began upon the line's opening on November 20, 1978.^[6]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
B2	Inbound	← Blue Line toward Largo Town Center (Foggy Bottom – GWU) ← → Orange Line toward New Carrollton (Foggy Bottom – GWU) ← ← Silver Line toward Largo Town Center (Foggy Bottom – GWU) ←
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Mezzanine	One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
B3	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Outbound	→ Blue Line toward Franconia–Springfield (Arlington Cemetery) → Orange Line toward Vienna (Court House) → Silver Line toward Wiehle – Reston East (Court House)

Rosslyn is one of two stations (the other being the Pentagon station on the Blue and Yellow Lines) at which westbound trains serve a platform that is a level below the mezzanine-level platform for eastbound trains. This allows for trains to converge inbound and diverge outbound via a flying junction to avoid an at-grade crossing.^[7]

Since the neighborhood is on a bluff over the Potomac River and the shared rail line into Washington passes through a rock-bored tunnel, Rosslyn is deep — the deepest on the three lines servicing it, and one of the three deepest in the system, behind only Wheaton and Forest Glen on the Red Line. The upper platform is 97 feet below street level; the lower platform is another 20 feet below that. An escalator ride between the street and mezzanine levels takes about three minutes.^[8] It is one of three stations on the Metro with platform-level fare gates and elevators. A new bank of three high-speed elevators and an expanded mezzanine opened officially on October 7, 2013.^[9] It replaces the original single street elevator, cutting elevator transit time from about a minute to about 17 seconds. The underground hallway to the new elevator bank contains a four-coffered arch like most underground stops on the Red Line that were opened after 1980. This is the only stop on the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines with this arch. It is also the only stop in the system that contains both the waffle and four-coffer arch design.

Notable places nearby

• Artisphere
• Freedom Park
• Marine Corps War Memorial
• Netherlands Carillon

Gallery

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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.^[1]

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1. ^ Johnson, Matt. "What are the Ten Longest Metro Escalators?". Greater Greater Washington, July 8, 2014. http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/23038/what-are-the-10-longest-metro-escalators

References

1. "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
2. "Metro considers building ‘inner loop’ of new stations to ease congestion in system’s core". The Washington Post.
3. Feaver, Douglas B. (July 1, 1977), "Today, Metro could be U.S. model", The Washington Post, p. A1
4. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (July 28, 2014). "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-11-28.
5. Staff Reporters (June 24, 1977), "Metro's newest stations: Where they are, what's nearby", The Washington Post
6. Eisen, Jack; John Feinstein (November 18, 1978), "City-County fanfare opens Orange Line; Ceremonies open new Orange Line", The Washington Post, p. D1
7. "Rosslyn Station New Entrance Study" (PDF). WMATA. March 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
8. Rosslyn Magazine: Discover A New Horizon, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Summer 2006, p. 21.
9. Arlington County news release 10/7/2013

External links

• WMATA: Rosslyn Station
• StationMasters Online: Rosslyn Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Rosslyn Station
• Fort Myer Drive entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Moore Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Coordinates: 38°53′46″N 77°04′19″W / 38.896031°N 77.071846°W