Federal Triangle (Washington Metro)

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Federal Triangle
Station statistics
Address	302 12th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20004
Lines	Blue Line Orange Line Silver Line (planned)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Bicycle facilities	20 racks
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1977
Accessible
Code	D01
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	3.972 million ▼ 3%
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station Metro Center toward Franconia–Springfield Blue Line Smithsonian toward Largo Town Center Metro Center toward Vienna/Fairfax–GMU Orange Line Smithsonian toward New Carrollton Metro Center toward Route 772 Silver Line (planned) Smithsonian toward Stadium–Armory

Federal Triangle 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's entrance is beneath the Ariel Rios Building. Service began on July 1, 1977.

The station serves an area of Washington crowded with federal buildings, on 12th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue NW and Constitution Avenue NW, including the triangular area formed by 15th Street, Constitution, and Pennsylvania known as Federal Triangle, from which the station takes its name. The triangle includes such federal buildings as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce), and the buildings of the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.

[edit] Notable places nearby

• Several federal government buildings in and near the Federal Triangle
  • Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building (Department of Justice headquarters):
  • Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce headquarters)
    • National Aquarium in Washington, D.C.
    • White House Visitor Center
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • J. Edgar Hoover Building (Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters)
  • Old Post Office
  • Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
• Freedom Plaza
• Pershing Park
• National Mall
  • Several Smithsonian Institution museums on the Mall, including the National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History

[edit] Bus routes

Metrobus

• 11Y
• 13A, 13B, 13F, 13G
• 30, 32, 34, 35, 36
• 52, 53, 54
• 66, 68
• A11
• N3
• P1, P2
• S2, S4
• X1

OmniRide Commuter Bus

• OmniRide

[edit] External links

• WMATA: Federal Triangle Station
• StationMasters Online: Federal Triangle Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Federal Triangle Station
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Hybrid satellite image/street map from WikiMapia