Federal Center SW (Washington Metro)

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Federal Center SW

Station statistics

Address

401 3rd Street, Southwest
Washington, D.C. 20024

Lines

Blue Line

Orange Line

Silver Line (planned)

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Bicycle facilities

2 racks

Other information

Opened

July 1, 1977

Accessible

Code

D04

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Traffic

Passengers (2001)

1.699 million ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station	Metrorail	Following station
L'Enfant Plaza toward Franconia–Springfield	Blue Line	Capitol South toward Largo Town Center
L'Enfant Plaza toward Vienna/Fairfax–GMU	Orange Line	Capitol South toward New Carrollton
L'Enfant Plaza toward Route 772	Silver Line (planned)	Capitol South toward Stadium–Armory

Federal Center SW is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Blue and Orange Lines. It is also scheduled to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2011.

The station is located at 3rd and D Streets, in an area of Southwest Washington known as the Southwest Federal Center, for the many federal buildings found there. Service began on July 1, 1977.

In preliminary maps this was named Voice of America station, after the government-owned radio service located a block away. In recognition of the possibility that VOA might move or the radio service might change its name in the years to come, the Metro facility instead got a more generic name.