Washington Metro rapid transit station | |||||||||||
Friendship Heights Station, July 14, 2011
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Location | 5337 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20015 |
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Coordinates | 38°57′39″N 77°05′10″W / 38.960921°N 77.086059°WCoordinates: 38°57′39″N 77°05′10″W / 38.960921°N 77.086059°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | WMATA | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Red Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections |
Metrobus: 30N, 30S, 31, 33, 37, E4, E6, L2, L8, N2, N4, N6, T2 Ride On: 1, 11, 23, 29 Friendship Heights Village Bus |
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Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 50 racks, 22 lockers | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | A08 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | August 25, 1984 | ||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||
Passengers (2015) | 9,466 daily 1.6% | ||||||||||
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Friendship Heights is a Washington Metro station straddling the border of Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
Providing service for the Red Line, the station is at the 5400 block of Wisconsin Avenue, Northwest and serves the neighborhoods of Chevy Chase and Friendship Heights. The area is a major retail shopping and broadcast media district. The station also serves as a bus depot linking Montgomery County Transit's Ride-On bus system with the Washington Metro. It is directly adjacent to the Western Division Metrobus garage on 44th Street and Harrison Street NW.
The station opened on August 25, 1984. Its opening coincided with the completion of 6.8 miles (10.9 km) of rail northwest of the Van Ness–UDC station and the opening of the Bethesda, Grosvenor, Medical Center and Tenleytown stations. This station is relatively deep, since it is the fifth deepest station on the Red Line. The escalator ride from the common room at the north entrance to the mezzanine level takes roughly a minute and a half.