ANACOSTIA (WASHINGTON METRO)

'Anacostia' is a Washington Metro station in Washington, DC 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 – a major street servicing the southern portion of the city.
Anacostia was the Green Line's southern terminus from December 28, 1991, when Green Line service first began to Anacostia, to January 13, 2001, with the opening of the line to Branch Avenue. Many people still depart here to ride on bus lines that serve the southeast neighborhoods better than the newer stations.
The architecture at Anacostia is unusual. Due to the shallow depth of the station, the usual arched ceiling would have been impractical. Instead, the architecture consists of flat concrete walls, and a ceiling consisting of multiple small barrel vaults similar to the upper coffers in the six-coffer arch station design, oriented perpendicular to the tracks. Also because of the water table from the nearby Anacostia River and DC-295/I-295 (Anacostia Freeway), Anacostia has a slightly longer platform. In addition, there are no pylons on the platform at Anacostia.
Connections can be made to buses on Routes 90, 94, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A33, B2, P1, P2, P6, P18, U2, W2, W3, W4, W6, W8, and W14.Metro - Anacostia Metrorail station, accessed May 27, 2007 Most of these routes were truncated or otherwise routed to Anacostia when it opened in 1991.John R. Butler, Washington Post, At Long Last, Green Line Comes South, January 2, 1992 WMATA had planned to shift all routes to Anacostia, but decided to continue ten routes into downtown, due to complaints of the higher cost of transferring to Metrorail by Southeast D.C. residents and also of crime in Anacostia by Prince George's County residents.^[1]

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1. Stephen C. Fehr, Washington Post, Metro Shifts Stand On SE, P.G. Buses, October 25, 1991

External links

★ StationMasters Online: Anacostia Station

★ The Schumin Web Transit Center: Anacostia Station