Foggy Bottom-GWU (Washington Metro)
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Address | 2301 I Street, Northwest Washington, DC 20037 |
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Lines | Blue Line, Orange Line | ||||||||||||||||||||
Other service | Silver Line (planned) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | Center platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | two | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | ten racks, twenty lockers | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 1, 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Code | C04 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Foggy Bottom-GWU is a Washington Metro station in Washington, DC on the Blue and Orange Lines. It is also scheduled to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2011. It is the last station inside the District of Columbia on these lines before they dive under the Potomac River to Virginia.
Foggy Bottom-GWU serves the neighborhood of Foggy Bottom and The George Washington University. It is also the nearest station to Georgetown. The station is located at 23rd and I St in Northwest, at the northwest end of the The George Washington University campus, just south of Washington Circle, and under the George Washington University Hospital. Service began on July 1, 1977.
[edit] Notable places nearby
- Columbia Hospital for Women
- George Washington University
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Lincoln Memorial
- National Mall
- U.S. State Department
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- The Watergate
[edit] External links
- WMATA: Foggy Bottom-GWU Station
- StationMasters Online: Foggy Bottom-GWU Station
- The Schumin Web Transit Center: Foggy Bottom-GWU Station
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