Cleveland Park station

Washington Metro station

Cleveland Park

Station viewed from the esclators and mezzanine in March 2009

General information
Location| 3599 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, D.C.
Coordinates| 38°56′9.5″N 77°3′30.7″W﻿ / ﻿38.935972°N 77.058528°W﻿ / 38.935972; -77.058528
Platforms| 1 island platform
Tracks| 2
Connections|  Metrobus: C61, C87, D70, D72
Construction
Structure type| Underground
Bicycle facilities| Capital Bikeshare, 16 racks, 12 lockers
Accessible| Yes
Other information
Station code| A05
History
Opened| December 5, 1981 (1981-12-05)
Passengers
2023| 1,900 daily[1]
Rank| 52 out of 98
Services
| Preceding station  |  Washington Metro | Following station

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Van Ness–UDC

toward Shady Grove

|  | Red Line |  | Woodley Park

toward Glenmont

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Location

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

## Station layout

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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.[2]

An escalator and staircase lead down from the fare gates to the platform.[2] 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.[2][3] Cleveland Park station has an island platform.

There are a pair of crossovers north of the station. 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.[4]

## History

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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.[4][5] 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.[4][5][6]

On June 21, 2016, a heavy rainstorm with as much as 4 inches (100 mm) of rain per hour at times produced flash flooding with a southerly flow along Connecticut Avenue. The north-facing Porter Street entrance was flooded, with water cascading down both the stairs and escalator for over 11 minutes. The escalator was not shut off and continued to run even while underwater at its base, however, no one was electrocuted.[7]

The 5 escalators leading from the surface to the faregate mezzanine were replaced from June 2017 to February 2019.[8] The station was closed from March 26 to June 28, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10][11]

## References

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1. ^ "Metrorail Ridership Summary". Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
2. ^ a b c "Cleveland Park". WMATA. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
3. ^ "Station Vicinity Map: Cleveland Park" (PDF). WMATA. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
4. ^ a b c Burgess, John (December 4, 1981), "The new northwest passage; 3 more stops on the Red Line...", The Washington Post, p. B1
5. ^ a b Burgess, John (December 5, 1981), "3 Metro stations opening today", The Washington Post, p. B7
6. ^ "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.
7. ^ Raboy, Kelli (June 22, 2016). "Ask GGWash: Why did the Cleveland Park Metro station flood?". GGWash. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
8. ^ "Cleveland Park entrance escalator replacement to begin June 5, 2017". wmata.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
9. ^ "Special Covid-19 System Map" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
10. ^ "Metrorail stations closed due to COVID-19 pandemic". Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. March 23, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
11. ^ "Metro to reopen 15 stations, reallocate bus service to address crowding, starting Sunday | WMATA". www.wmata.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cleveland Park station.

* WMATA Cleveland Park station page

* Station entrances on Google Maps Street View

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