L'Enfant Plaza (WMATA station)

L'Enfant Plaza
Washington Metro rapid transit station VREX commuter rail station ("L'Enfant")
Location	600 Maryland Avenue, Southwest Washington, D.C. 20024 690 Virginia Avenue SW (VRE)
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Line(s)	Blue Line Orange Line Green Line Yellow Line Silver Line
Platforms	2 side platforms (upper level) 1 island platform (lower level)
Tracks	4 (2 upper level, 2 lower level)
Connections	Virginia Railway Express:   Fredericksburg Line   Manassas Line at L'Enfant Metrobus: 5A, 52, 74, A9, V1, V5, W9 MTA Maryland Commuter Bus Loudoun County Transit OmniRide Commuter
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	F03 (Metro upper level) D03 (Metro lower level)
Fare zone	Zone 1 (VRE)
History
Opened	July 1, 1977; 39 years ago (July 1, 1977) (WMATA) June 1992; 24 years ago (1992-06) (VRE)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	20,367 daily   0.72% (Metro)
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station Smithsonian toward Franconia–Springfield Blue Line Federal Center SW toward Largo Town Center Waterfront toward Branch Avenue Green Line Archives toward Greenbelt Smithsonian toward Vienna Orange Line Federal Center SW toward New Carrollton Smithsonian toward Wiehle – Reston East Silver Line Federal Center SW toward Largo Town Center Pentagon toward Franconia–Springfield Yellow Line Greenbelt-Franconia-Springfield weekdays rush hours service Rush Plus Archives toward Greenbelt Pentagon toward Huntington Yellow Line Mount Vernon Square-Huntington weekdays rush hours service Archives toward Mount Vernon Square Yellow Line Not on weekdays rush hours Archives toward Fort Totten Virginia Railway Express Crystal City toward Broad Run Manassas Line Union Station Terminus Crystal City toward Spotsylvania Fredericksburg Line

L'Enfant Plaza is a Washington Metro station in the Southwest Federal Center 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). It is a transfer station, with two levels: the upper level has two side platforms and is used by the Green and Yellow Lines, while the lower level has an island platform used by the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines. It is also where the Yellow and Green lines converge going north. The station serves five out of the system's six lines, serving the most lines out of any station in the system; only the Red Line does not serve the station.

L'Enfant Plaza is the last station in the District on the Yellow Line before crossing the Potomac into Virginia on the 14th Street Bridge.

The station is located in Southwest Washington, with entrances at the L'Enfant Plaza shopping mall concourse at 9th and D Streets, on D Street between 6th and 7th Streets, and at Maryland Avenue and 7th Street. It is in the center of an area crowded with federal buildings and is a transfer point allowing passengers to easily cross the Potomac between Virginia and central Washington, making it a very busy station. L'Enfant Plaza is named for the French-American planner of Washington, D.C., Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant.