Farragut North station

Farragut North
General information
Location	1001 Connecticut Avenue, Northwest Washington, DC 20036
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	Center platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Bicycle facilities	eight racks
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	A02
History
Opened	March 27, 1976
Passengers
2001	9.581 million  0%
Services
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Farragut North is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line.

Farragut North serves downtown Washington and is located just north of Farragut Square. It lies at the heart of the business district on Connecticut Avenue, with two entrances at L Street and one at K Street. Adjacent to the L Street entrance was a food court which has its own stairway to the surface; the food court closed in the 2007, and will be replaced with a Results Gym location. It is the third-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 27,200 passengers per weekday as of May 3, 2006. It is also one of the most shallow, with a lower-than-usual ceiling. The low, flat ceiling at the west end was built to accommodate a proposed freeway ramp to Interstate 66, which was never built. Service began on March 27, 1976.

Farragut North station features unique architecture throughout the system. Its mezzanine stretches across more of the platform and is longer than most, with an open depression looking onto the platform in the middle. There are two elevated "aisles" that serve different escalators and exits. Special buttress-like structures support these stretches of the mezzanine. This special design may be due to the fact that Farragut North was one of the original stations on the Washington Metro system; later stations were made very similarly to each other for cost reasons.

As part of the long-term capital improvement plan dated September 12, 2002, Metro has proposed building an underground pedestrian tunnel connecting this station with Farragut West.

The station, as with the nearby square, takes its name from Admiral David Farragut, the senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.

Notable places nearby

• Lafayette Square
• White House
• National Geographic Society
• World Bank
• St. Matthew's Cathedral
• Mayflower Hotel
• NASD
• Fordham Foundation

External links

• WMATA: Farragut North Station
• StationMasters Online: Farragut North Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Farragut North Station