Eastern Market station

Eastern Market is an island platformed Washington Metro station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The station currently provides service for the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines. The station is located in Southeast Washington at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street. It is named after the nearby Eastern Market, a historic Washington, D.C. public marketplace.

Eastern Market
rapid transit station
Platform and mezzanine in May 2010
Location701 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C.
Owned byWMATA
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Metrobus: 30N, 30S, 32, 34, 36, 39, 90, 92
DC Circulator:
  Congress Heights – Union Station
  Eastern Market–L'Enfant Plaza
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Bicycle facilities20 lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeD06
History
OpenedJuly 1, 1977 (July 1, 1977)
Passengers
20175,119 daily [1]  3.36%
Services
Preceding station Washington Metro Following station
Capitol South
toward Franconia–Springfield
 Blue Line Potomac Avenue
toward Largo Town Center
Capitol South
toward Wiehle–Reston East
 Silver Line
Capitol South
toward Vienna
 Orange Line Potomac Avenue
toward New Carrollton

History
Station entrance pylon in July 2004

Originally, the station was to be named Marine Barracks, after the Washington Marine Barracks located a few blocks south of the station on 8th Street.[2] However, after lobbying from the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, the name was changed to Eastern Market.[2] 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 an entire section of line, which included 16 stations in total, between the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Stadium–Armory stations.[5] Orange Line service to the station began upon the line's opening on November 20, 1978.[6] Silver Line service at Eastern Market began on July 26, 2014.[7]

Station layout
G Street level Exit/entrance, buses
M Mezzanine Fare gates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform level		 Westbound ← toward Franconia–Springfield (Capitol South)
← toward Wiehle–Reston East (Capitol South)
← toward Vienna/Fairfax–GMU (Capitol South)
Island platform
Eastbound →   toward Largo Town Center (Potomac Avenue) →
→ toward New Carrollton (Potomac Avenue) →

References
  1. "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  2. Feaver, Douglas B.; Feinstein, John (November 27, 1978), "That which we call Zoological Park would smell as sweet half mile away; What's in a Metro name?", The Washington Post, p. C4, retrieved January 29, 2018
  3. Feaver, Douglas B. (July 1, 1977), "Today, Metro could be U.S. model", The Washington Post, p. A1
  4. "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 2017. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  5. "Metro's newest stations: Where they are, what's nearby", The Washington Post, June 24, 1977
  6. Eisen, Jack; Feinstein, John (November 18, 1978), "City-County fanfare opens Orange Line; Ceremonies open new Orange Line", The Washington Post, p. D1
  7. Halsey, Ashley (July 26, 2014). "All aboard! Metro's new Silver Line rolls down the tracks for the first time". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
Street-level entrance in December 2014.

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