Farragut North (Washington Metro)

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For the play, see Farragut North (play). For the upcoming film, see Farragut North (2009 film).

Farragut North

Station statistics

Address

1001 Connecticut Avenue, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20036

Lines

Red Line

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

8 racks

Other information

Opened

March 27, 1976

Accessible

Code

A02

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Traffic

Passengers (2006)

9.717 million ▲ 4%

Services

Preceding station		Metrorail		Following station
Dupont Circle toward Shady Grove		Red Line		Metro Center toward Glenmont

Farragut North is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.

Farragut North serves downtown Washington and is located just north of Farragut Square. It lies at the heart of the business district on Connecticut Avenue, with two entrances at L Street and one at K Street. Adjacent to the L Street entrance was a food court which has its own stairway to the surface; the food court closed in 2007 was later replaced with a Results Gym location. It is the third-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 27,200 passengers per weekday as of May 3, 2006.^[1] It is also one of the most shallow, with a lower-than-usual ceiling. The low, flat ceiling at the west end was built to accommodate a proposed freeway ramp to Interstate 66, which was never built. Service began on March 27, 1976.

Farragut North station features unique architecture throughout the system. Its mezzanine stretches across more of the platform and is longer than most, with an open depression looking onto the platform in the middle. There are two elevated "aisles" that serve different escalators and exits. Special buttress-like structures support these stretches of the mezzanine.

As part of the long-term capital improvement plan dated September 12, 2002, Metro has proposed building an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting this station with Farragut West.

The station, as with the nearby square, takes its name from Admiral David Farragut, the senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.

A play titled Farragut North about Howard Dean was written by Beau Willimon, a former assistant with the Dean campaign for the 2004 Democratic primary.^[2] The story is titled after the Metro station as the station is located in the center of the lobbyist district. The script later won the 2005 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest award and is set to open on Broadway, produced by Back House Productions and directed by Mike Nichols. The play is already slated to be produced as a feature film by Warner Brothers in 2009. ^[3] Leonardo DiCaprio is believed to play a campaign communications director and George Clooney is to represent Dean.