L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro)

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L'Enfant Plaza
Station statistics
Address	600 Maryland Avenue, Southwest 6th & 7th Streets at C Street, Southwest (VRE) Washington, D.C. 20024
Lines	Green Line Yellow Line Blue Line Orange Line Silver Line (planned)
Connections	Virginia Railway Express: Fredericksburg Line Manassas Line
Platforms	2 side platforms (upper level) 1 island platform (lower level)
Tracks	2 upper level, 2 lower level
Other information
Opened	July 1, 1977
Accessible
Code	F03 (upper level) D03 (lower level)
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Fare zone	Zone 1 (VRE)
Traffic
Passengers (2001)	7.341 million ▬ 0%
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station Waterfront-SEU toward Branch Avenue Green Line Archives–Navy Memorial–Penn Quarter toward Greenbelt Pentagon toward Huntington Yellow Line Archives–Navy Memorial–Penn Quarter toward Fort Totten Smithsonian toward Franconia–Springfield Blue Line Federal Center SW toward Largo Town Center Smithsonian toward Vienna/Fairfax–GMU Orange Line Federal Center SW toward New Carrollton Smithsonian toward Route 772 Silver Line (planned) Federal Center SW toward Stadium–Armory Preceding station   Virginia Railway Express   Following station Crystal City toward Broad Run/Airport Manassas Line Washington Terminus Crystal City toward Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Line

L'Enfant Plaza is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. served by the Blue, Green, Orange, and Yellow Lines. It is a transfer station with the Blue and Orange lines on the lower level, crossed by the Yellow and Green lines on the upper level. It is also where the Yellow and Green lines converge going north. It is the only station in the system to be served by four lines; when the Silver Line begins service in 2011, it will be the only station in the system to be served by five lines. In other words, the Red Line is the only line not to serve this station at all.

The station is located in Southwest, with entrances at the L'Enfant Plaza mall concourse at 9th and D Streets, on D Street between 6th and 7th Streets, at Maryland Avenue and 7th Street, and in the courtyard of the former United States Department of Transportation building. It is in the center of an area crowded with federal buildings, and is a transfer station to easily cross the Potomac between Virginia and central Washington, making it a very busy station. Service began on the Blue and Orange level on July 1, 1977, and on the Green and Yellow level on April 30, 1983. This is the only case where a station's lower level began service before the upper level.

L'Enfant Plaza is named for the French architect of the Federal District, Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

The Virginia Railway Express has an adjacent station called "L'Enfant" between 6th and 7th Sts. at where C St. would be.

[edit] Notable nearby locations

• L'Enfant Plaza
• National Mall
• Several Smithsonian Museums, nearest are:
  • Arts and Industries Building (Currently closed)
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • National Air and Space Museum (This is probably the nearest station to this most popular of Smithsonian museums)
• Several federal government buildings, including:
  • James V. Forrestal Building - Department of Energy headquarters
  • Robert C. Weaver Federal Building - Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  • Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  • United States Postal Service

[edit] Bus Routes

Metrobus

• 13A, 13B, 13F, 13G
• 30, 32, 34, 35, 36
• 52, 54
• 5A
• 70, 71
• A9
• P17, P19
• V5
• V7, V8, V9
• W13

Loudoun County Commuter Bus

• Loudoun County

OmniRide Commuter Bus

• OmniRide

[edit] External links

• WMATA: L'Enfant Plaza Station
• StationMasters Online: L'Enfant Plaza Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: L'Enfant Plaza (Upper Level)
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: L'Enfant Plaza (Lower Level)
• VRE: L'Enfant Station

• L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro) is at coordinates 38°53′05″N 77°01′19″W / 38.884775, -77.021964 (L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro))Coordinates: 38°53′05″N 77°01′19″W / 38.884775, -77.021964 (L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro))
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Hybrid satellite image/street map from WikiMapia