Dupont Circle (Washington Metro)

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Dupont Circle

Station statistics

Address

1525 20th Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20036

Lines

Red Line

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

16 racks, 12 lockers

Other information

Opened

January 17, 1977

Accessible

Code

A03

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Traffic

Passengers (2006)

8.424 million ▲ 2%

Services

Preceding station		Metrorail		Following station
Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan toward Shady Grove		Red Line		Farragut North toward Glenmont

Dupont Circle is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.

The station, which serves the northwest edge of downtown Washington, lies under Dupont Circle and has two entrances: the north entrance, on Q Street Northwest between Connecticut Avenue and 20th Street, NW, and the south entrance, on 19th Street Northwest between Dupont Circle and Sunderland Place.

The station was constructed underneath a former streetcar tunnel and another tunnel that carries Connecticut Avenue traffic. Service began on January 17, 1977. It is the fifth-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 23,400 passengers per weekday as of May 2006.^[1]