Cleveland Park station

Cleveland Park is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro. Located in the neighborhood of the same name in Washington DC, it opened on December 5, 1981.

Cleveland Park
rapid transit station
Location3599 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
Coordinates38°56′9.5″N 77°3′30.7″W
Owned byWMATA
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Metrobus: D32, H2, H3, H4, L1, L2, W47
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Depth106 feet (32 m)
Bicycle facilities16 racks, 12 lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeA05
History
OpenedDecember 5, 1981 (December 5, 1981)
Traffic
Passengers (2018)3,657 daily[1]  3.59%
Services
Preceding station Washington Metro Following station
Van Ness–UDC
toward Shady Grove
 Red Line Woodley Park
toward Glenmont

Location

The station serves the residential Cleveland Park neighborhood in Northwestern Washington. Its principal attraction is the National Zoological Park; the zoo is not only a downhill walk from this station, but also 106 feet closer from Cleveland Park than from Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan station. Across Porter Street NW lies the Adas Israel Congregation, the District's largest Conservative Jewish synagogue.[2] The historic Art Deco Uptown Theater is located across Ordway Street NW to the south.

History

While Cleveland Park was part of the initial system plan in 1959, the station opened on December 5, 1981, five years after the first segment began operations.[3][4] Its opening coincided with the completion of 2.1 miles (3.4 km) of rail northwest of the Dupont Circle station and the opening of Van Ness–UDC and Woodley Park stations.[3][4][5]

From March 26, 2020 until June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.[6][7][8]

Station layout

There are two entrances to the station, both on Connecticut Avenue but on opposite sides of the street between Ordway Street NW and Porter Street NW. Each of these street-level entrances contains an escalator and a staircase leading to an upper mezzanine that joins the two entrances underground. A set of three escalators descends to the station concourse, which houses fare control and ticket machines.[9] An escalator and staircase lead down from the fare gates to the platform.[9] An elevator from street level to the concourse is available on the northeastern corner of the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and Ordway Street NW and an elevator is available between the concourse and platform after passing through the fare gates.[9][2]

Cleveland Park station has an island platform with two tracks, A1 and A2. Glenmont-bound trains use track A1 while Shady Grove-bound trains use track A2. A pair of crossovers north of the station are remnants of its status as the penultimate station of the Red Line from its opening until August 25, 1984, when the Red Line was extended westward once again to Grosvenor–Strathmore (and eventually to Shady Grove).

Architecturally, Cleveland Park is similar to other stations along the underground stretch of the Red Line between Woodley Park and Medical Center. Because of the high cost of the waffle design and the relative large depth of these stations, pre-fabricated concrete segments were shipped to the construction site and placed together to form the structure of the station, resulting in a four-coffer station design.[3]

G Street level Exit/entrance, buses
Upper mezzanine Escalator landing
M Mezzanine Fare gates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform level		 Westbound ← toward Grosvenor–Strathmore or Shady Grove (Van Ness–UDC)
Island platform
Eastbound → toward Silver Spring or Glenmont (Woodley Park) →

References
  1. "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  2. "Station Vicinity Map: Cleveland Park" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  3. Burgess, John (December 4, 1981), "The new northwest passage; 3 more stops on the Red Line...", The Washington Post, p. B1
  4. Burgess, John (December 5, 1981), "3 Metro stations opening today", The Washington Post, p. B7
  5. "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 2017. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  6. "Special Covid-19 System Map" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  7. "Metrorail stations closed due to COVID-19 pandemic". Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. March 23, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  8. "Metro to reopen 15 stations, reallocate bus service to address crowding, starting Sunday | WMATA". www.wmata.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  9. "Cleveland Park". WMATA. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
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