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L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro)

WMATA Metro Logo.svg L'Enfant Plaza Blue Line Orange Line Green Line Yellow Line Silver Line
Washington Metro rapid transit station
VREX commuter rail station ("L'Enfant")
L'Enfant Plaza upper level, facing outbound.jpg
Location 600 Maryland Avenue, Southwest
Washington, D.C. 20024
690 Virginia Avenue SW (VRE)
Owned by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms (upper level)
1 island platform (lower level)
Tracks 4 (2 upper level, 2 lower level)
Connections Railway line Virginia Railway Express:
at L'Enfant
Bus transport Metrobus: 5A, 52, 74, A9, V1, V5, W9
Bus transport MTA Maryland Commuter Bus
Bus transport Loudoun County Transit
Bus transport 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 (2016) 20,394 daily  Increase 0.13% (Metro)
Services
Preceding station   WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro   Following station
Blue Line
Green Line
toward Greenbelt
toward Vienna
Orange Line
Silver Line
Yellow Line
Greenbelt-Franconia-Springfield weekdays rush hours service
toward Greenbelt
toward Huntington
Yellow Line
Mount Vernon Square-Huntington weekdays rush hours service
Yellow Line
Not on weekdays rush hours
toward Fort Totten
Virginia Railway Express
toward Broad Run
Manassas Line
Terminus
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.


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