WOODLEY PARK-ZOO/ADAMS MORGAN (WASHINGTON METRO)

'Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan' is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Red Line. Located at 24th Street and Connecticut Avenue NW, it serves the neighborhoods of Woodley Park and Adams Morgan in Northwest Washington.
Service began on December 5, 1981 with the extension of the Red Line to Van Ness-UDC. The name of the station at its opening was "Woodley Park-Zoo", due to its proximity to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park (commonly known as the National Zoo). 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.
At 160 feet deep, this is the second deepest station in the system. 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.^[1]

On November 3, 2004, an out-of-service train rolled backwards into the station and collided with an in-service train. The non-fatal crash injured about 20 people and caused $3.5 million in damages. An investigation determined that the operator of the runaway train was likely asleep.^[2]

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Notable places nearby

References

External links

Notable places nearby

★ Smithsonian National Zoological Park

★ Rock Creek Park

★ Duke Ellington Bridge

References

1. http://world.nycsubway.org/us/washdc/overview.html
2. Dozing Operator Blamed in Rail Crash Lena H Sun

External links

★ WMATA: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station

★ StationMasters Online: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station

★ The Schumin Web Transit Center: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Station

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★ Hybrid street map/satellite image from WikiMapia