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Anacostia station

WMATA Metro Logo.svg Anacostia Green Line
WMATA Anacostia station with 5000-Series train.jpg
A 5000-series train arrives at Anacostia
Location 1101 Howard Road SE
Washington, DC 20020
Owned by WMATA
Line(s) Green Line Green Line
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections Bus transport Metrobus: 90, 94, A2, A4, A6, A7, A8, A9, B2, P6, V2, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W8
Bus transport DC Circulator:
     Potomac Ave MetroSkyland
Construction
Structure type Underground
Parking 808 spaces
Bicycle facilities 13 racks, 8 lockers
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code F06
History
Opened December 28, 1991; 25 years ago (1991-12-28)
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 6,153 daily  Decrease 14.21%
Services
Preceding station   WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro   Following station
Green Line
toward Greenbelt
External image
"River Spirits of the Anacostia by Martha Jackson Jarvis

Coordinates: 38°51′43.6″N 76°59′43.1″W / 38.862111°N 76.995306°W / 38.862111; -76.995306

Anacostia is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Green Line. The station is located in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington, with entrances at Shannon Place and Howard Road near Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE (a major street serving the southeastern portion of the city). The station serves as a hub for Metrobus routes in Southeast, Washington, D.C. and Prince George's County, Maryland.

The architecture at Anacostia is unusual. Due to cost considerations and the station's shallow depth, the usual arched ceiling was abandoned in favor of flat concrete walls and a ceiling of small barrel vaults (oriented perpendicular to the tracks) similar to the upper coffers in the six-coffer arch station design. The station is an underground stop because the distance between the Anacostia River tunnels and the station is too short to have permitted an above-ground stop. The station has entrances on both sides of DC-295/I-295 (Anacostia Freeway), which necessitated the construction of a slightly longer platform than would be necessary to accommodate trains. In addition, there are no pylons at platform-level at Anacostia.


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