Woodley Park (WMATA station)

Woodley Park Zoo / Adams Morgan
Washington Metro rapid transit station
Location	2660 Woodley Road, NW Washington, DC 20008
Coordinates	38°55′28″N 77°03′09″W / 38.924505°N 77.052392°W / 38.924505; -77.052392Coordinates: 38°55′28″N 77°03′09″W / 38.924505°N 77.052392°W / 38.924505; -77.052392
Owned by	WMATA
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Metrobus: 96, L1, L2 DC Circulator
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Depth	154 feet (47 m)
Bicycle facilities	8 racks
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	A04
History
Opened	December 5, 1981; 35 years ago (December 5, 1981)
Previous names	Zoological Park (during construction) Woodley Park–Zoo (1981–1999) Woodley Park–Zoo/Adams Morgan (1999-2011)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	7,093 daily   2.03%
Services
Preceding station   Washington Metro   Following station Cleveland Park toward Shady Grove Red Line Dupont Circle toward Glenmont

Woodley Park (also known as Woodley Park–Zoo / Adams Morgan) is a station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located at 24th Street and Connecticut Avenue Northwest, it serves the neighborhoods of Woodley Park and Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington.

With a vertical rise of 102 feet, the entrance escalators at Woodley Park are the longest in the District of Columbia and the third longest on the Metrorail system (behind Wheaton and Bethesda). The original escalators entered service when the station opened in 1981. On January 5, 2015, work began to replace the escalators, expected to run through mid-2018.

The station opened on December 5, 1981. Its opening coincided with the completion of 2.1 miles (3.4 km) of rail northwest of the Dupont Circle station and the opening of the Cleveland Park and Van Ness–UDC stations.

Originally known as simply "Zoological Park", in 1979 its name was changed to "Woodley Park–Zoo" because neighbors believed that the name was misleading, as the National Zoological Park is located .5-mile (0.80 km) from the station. The Adams Morgan neighborhood lies at the other end of the nearby Duke Ellington Bridge, and "Adams Morgan" was added to the station name in 1999 to reflect this. On November 3, 2011, the station was renamed to "Woodley Park", with "Zoo/Adams Morgan" as a subtitle.

It was the first in the system to deviate from the waffle-like coffers found at most underground stations in downtown Washington, instead using a simpler four-coffer arch. The advantage of the four-coffer arch was that it was pre-cast in Winchester, Virginia, and then hauled underground and installed on-site, while the waffle-style arches used in other stations had to be cast in place. This was done as a cost-saving measure.

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