Columbia Heights station

Columbia Heights is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green and Yellow Lines. Due to successful redevelopment since the station's opening, Columbia Heights is one of the busiest Metro stops outside the downtown core, with over four million exits in 2010.[2]

Columbia Heights
rapid transit station
Location3030 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Owned byWMATA
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Metrobus: 52, 54, 59, D32, H1, H2, H3, H4, H8, S1, S2, S4, S9, W45, W47
DC Circulator
Construction
Bicycle facilities4 racks, 12 lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeE04
History
OpenedSeptember 18, 1999 (September 18, 1999)
Traffic
Passengers (2017)10,679 daily [1]  5.38%
Services
Preceding station Washington Metro Following station
U Street
toward Branch Avenue
 Green Line Georgia Avenue–Petworth
toward Greenbelt
U Street
toward Huntington
 Yellow Line

The station is located in Northwest Washington at 14th and Irving Streets (entrances at both the Southwest and Northeast corners), serving both the Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. It is also close to the Adams Morgan neighborhood. Service began on September 18, 1999.

Station layout
Station headhouses in 2015

The station has an island platform located underneath 14th Street, with an entrance at the intersection with Irving Street.

G Street level Exit/entrance, buses
M Mezzanine Fare gates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform level		 Southbound ← toward Branch Avenue (U Street)
← toward Huntington (U Street)
Island platform
Northbound ←   toward Greenbelt (Georgia Avenue–Petworth) →
Station entrance pylon in 2005

Public art

Installed in 1999, Woven Identities is a mural and wall sculpture located in the Metro station. Installed as part of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities public art agenda the piece was created by D.C. architect Meghan Walsh, AIA and youth from Casa Del Pueblo Community Center. A series of painted panels, which appear like mosaics, the mural is abstract featuring faces representing the diversity of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Neon lights of many colors glow from behind the framed painted mosaics.[3]

References
  1. "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  2. "Columbia Heights neighborhood profile" (PDF). WDCEP. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  3. WMATA (2010). "Columbia Heights Station". Art by Metro Line: Green Line. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.


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