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Every Deleted Metro Station
Listing every Station that was deleted from the Washington Metrorail system. Follow along if you enjoy public transit or history -- Any deleted stations that you wish were built? Or any actual stations that you think should have been deleted during the planning process? Share your thoughts in the comments below
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Ranking EVERY Washington Metro Station
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Ranking all 98 WMATA Metrorail Stations from S-Tier to F-Tier. Watch along to see where your favorite station was placed! If you have any thoughts, sound off in the comments below Which station did I rank too high? Which too low? Click here to make your own tier list: tiermaker.com/create/washington-metro-stations-17178037 #tierlist #metro #metrorail #wmata #washingtondc #maryland #virginia #mo...
Nice I used to work at Bell Atlantic @ 1 Washington there in 96-97. Thanks for the memories
soooo true @shady grove and silver spring placements
Stations I would rank higher: Rosslyn important transfer station that has a great McDonald's on top of it and next to the forever inspiring US Marine Corps War Memorial. Vienna - GMU shuttle, closest station to the rare MicroCenter in walking distance, and there tends to be a musician playing in the afternoons. King Street - Amtrak Station. Metro to get to NOVA community college by shuttle. Reagan National - you covered it perfectly, its just so nice to walk off the metro and be within minutes to the TSA line. Potomac Yard - A weird set up, but do like the bike amenities. Its also just so nice to be able to visit Target, Chipotle, and Best Buy right next to this station. Van Dorn - ok, could use improvement but it has very useful bus hub for the area.
HEY! Wheaton is my home station 😠
He hates big escalators
There was supposed to originally be a whole subway line down Columbia Pike from the Pentagon to Baileys Crossroads with further extension to Annandale one day but that was scrapped.
Love this video!! Very knowledgeable!! Keep up the amazing work!
Logan Circle made so much sense. Now that’s a gap.
Amazon has already moved into Pentagon City/National Landing. The PHASE ONE Met Park finished in spring of last year.
Nice history, but you failed to mention the branch that starts just South of the Pentagon Station and goes West, (There is still a tunnel junction in plain view just South of Pentagon on the Blue/Yellow lines that would have been the tie-in to this branch!) Search RUclips for "Secrets of the Blue Line" and you'll see the junction at the Pentagon Station.
There’s so much suburban housing around innovation center that isn’t served by Herndon station at all! Definitely not F tier. My home station deserves S tier for its nearby walkable amenities, beautiful views of the landing aircraft, direct connection via bus to the Air and Space Museum, and secret northern entrance.
They originally planned a statiom.serving Wolf Trap on the Silver Line phase I segment
Braddock Road entrance situation is so weird. Brookland and College Park managed to get entrances on both sides but Braddock Road can't??
Innovation center DOES have two entrances. The north one services absolutely no one, but it does exist, which might honestly be worse.
Him to pentagon: “the split level platform is unique” Rosslyn: am I a joke to you?
Congress Heights Station would have been best at the other end of Alabama Ave. The station would have served both ends of Alabama Ave, Hillcrest and parts of Good Hope Rd. We also desperately need a stations that extends south of Maryland Oxon Hill, National Harbor, Camp Spring, Fort Washington, Accokeek, Clinton, Brandywine, and Charles County.
proud user of arlington cemetery 😤 i’m next to the war memorial so i’d rather avoid the roaches at rosslyn in the summer
This content is like a candy store for transit enthusiasts. Happy to subscribe and learn.
I really enjoyed this video! I’m not quite as familiar with all of the stations as you are, but of the ones I do know I think you ranked them pretty fairly according to your criteria. Totally agree with the Shady Grove S tier btw. It’s a really good terminal. Also I really enjoy and make use of the extra fare gate on the platform by the staircase.
Every concern I had with this video was instantly negated by Shady Grove's placement🤣
I am so questioning your qualifications for ranking these stations..... For starters, how is L'Enfant Plaza A tier when there's no accessibility for wheelchair-bound passengers to the northbound Yellow/Green lines from the Orange/Silver/Blue lines? Theres a whole lot more i can get into, but my thumbs can only type but so much and i have 16 hours to get back to the office 😅
I'm questioning it as well. I live at Wheaton and he stated in was a F-tier because he believed that more residentials live near Forest Glen or Glenmont. First of all there are over 10 complexes by the metro stop, 5 or 6 of them literally less than 5 min walk. Additionally, there are residential homes literally less than 10 min walk from the station. Secondly, it drops off in the heart of downtown Wheaton providing access to the Mall and several restaurants and shops. As for the long escalator, yes it can be inconvenient after a long day and you're ready to get back to home, but that fun fact has been something I've said many times to. Now to be clear, I am not advocating for the metro stop to be an S-tier. But I would for sure not consider it to be an F-tier given that its a good example of providing access to and from a suburban area into the city
As someone whose home station is Van Dorn, I think the F is well-deserved. I live in Fairfax County just south of the station, and on top of the beltway being in the way, the pedestrian infrastructure going past it is atrocious. It’s served by a ridiculously narrow trail, and I almost got hit by a bicyclist walking to the station from my house once. I have never done it again since then, instead opting to take Fairfax Connector or get a ride. It also has no retail that you can immediately walk to. Both Fairfax County and Alexandria City want to change that, though. In fact, Alexandria City recently came out with an ambitious plan to redevelop the area around the NS-owned rail corridor.
I appreciate your comment! I visit Van Dorn station a lot as well and agree on some of your points like its a little weird to get to on foot and it does lack retail. But its bus hub serves a critical function for the area, better in some ways than Franconia Springfield and King Street. It gives you a better transfer options for busses in the area coming off metro, amtrak, and the airport. Also for me as a woman I feel relatively safe just waiting around there for the most part. Metro Center which was ranked highly tends to have be a bit claustrophobic for me and has regular panhandlers.
58:53 king street has a ton of bus routes and the king street trolley to adress it not being in the middle of old town
Great job
Oh this is incredibly fascinating to me. Very thorough video! Sadly ironic that Oklahoma Ave ended up still having the negatives of the train tracks making noise and blocking their view, but didn’t even get a station to have any of the positives.
As someone who grew up in the Carver/Langston neighborhood near Oklahoma Ave, this was incredibly shortsighted by the residents. Forced people to have to use Metrobus to get downtown. Maybe if DC gets control of the RFK site to develop it, they might reconsider a station there.
I really wish there was an Oklahoma Avenue Station - would boost DC Streetcar plus all the development making its way down Benning Road.
Invest in a better microphone please
How do you know so much about every station?
love this
Congres heights definitely has a parking lot, even tho they’re talking about removing it.
With the planning for service to National harbor, it pains me they built the hybrid alingment between branch ave & Rosecroft Raceway. Should've been one or the other not a silly hybrid alignment.
Georgetown Metro 😆
Very good history of the DC Metro System. Great research and clearly presented.
I love the DC Metro train’s automated PA sounds and beeps when doors open and close. Has a vibe I can just jive with more than NYC’s “Stand clear of the closing doors, please” in that deep male voice 😂
Excellent video.
Defo my bias but I love van Dorn station. If you walk / get a ride it’s always very relaxed and it never has traffic. I love its simplicity it always feels like a video game hub world to me. But that’s defo my bias hahahah I loved your vid and tier list, plus ur reasoning was hella solid!
Excellent video.
you cooked with this fr, nice vid!
If Oklahoma Avenue station was built, it's likely that the DC Streetcar nearby would see an increase in ridership.
I really wish there was an Oklahoma Avenue Station - 100 percent agree would boost DC Streetcar plus all the development making its way down Benning Road.
34:00 - National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda
9:51 -- *Shaw* - Is that a station on the Green Line?
It is , Shaw -Howard University.
7:55 - Ironically, Springfield Mall is not near Springfield Metro Station.
That's a WALK
@@rstreet5537yup I did that walk EVERY work day from 2006-2008 when I worked at Springfield mall.
> 1:12 < I had always imagined that the plan was for a line from *Pentagon* to run on the median of Shirley Highway (I-95), rather than Columbia Pike as shown here.
OMG! How could you make a stupid 35 minute video on WMATA without mentioning Wolftrap station and Leesburg station at Rt. 15 and the Dulles Greenway?!?!
Only discussed stations that once were included in the ARS but later were deleted -- figured the video was long enough already and I needed a clear boundary. Neither of those stations were ever added to the ARS. Wolf Trap was considered but the ridership projections were insufficient (and it received some pushback from nearby residents) -- some basic provisions were made for the possible addition down the line, but I find it incredibly unlikely that it ever gets built. The Leesburg station was never seriously considered -- the justification to build the Silver Line to Ashburn was shaky to begin with, certainly no chance that Leesburg would have been included as well. The closest this area got to receiving a station occurred in 2013, when WMATA studied 11 possible end-of-line expansions to evaluate which might be viable to construct -- one of which was a three-station extension of the Silver line (with stations along the Greenway at Belmont Ridge, Crosstail Blvd, and Route 15). Ultimately, this study concluded that this extension could not support the ridership to justify the construction cost.
Anyone else annoyed by the Blue and Yellow lines in Virginia being flipped? Van Dorn and Franconia are the Blue line, Huntington and Eisenhower are the Yellow line. I just felt bothered by that.
Under the original system plans, the Yellow Line would have terminated at Franconia (or Springfield, before that branch was nixed) and the Blue Line would have gone to Huntington -- the routes were "temporarily" swapped due to a rail car shortage when the segment between national airport and Huntington opened in December 1983 (which were later made permanent). For the stations discussed in this video, I decided to use the original service patterns since that is how they were imagined when these stations were in the ARS (and when they were eventually deleted).
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What about the entire Columbia Pike subway line? We still need it!
Columbia Pike branch was (unfortunately) never included in the Adopted Regional System -- fingers crossed that it gets added some day in the future
@believer5497 The line from Dulles could have been built into It's Pentagon place, rather than crowding the tunnel with the Orange and Blue trains.
Just south of Pentagon Metro are the beginnings of two tunnels that were constructed to branch off in the direction of Columbia Pike. You never know what the future holds.
In terms of ridership and miles of track though the DC Metro is second only to New York
Minor correction and fun fact on Pentagon Station. The Pentagon is actually now the 2nd largest offcie complex in the world after India build a slightly larger one that opened in late 2023.
I believe Apple Park and Tesla's Giga Texas also beat out the Pentagon now.
This could have been 4 or 5 videos if you split it out. An hour and 40 minutes is a bit much
Thank goodness they moved Waterfront. Otherwise it basically would have almost touched the Navy Yard station but would have been nowhere near the actual waterfront.
I remember seeing the *Waterfront Station* area dug-up under construction Summer 1973, many years before the Yellow Line would begin to operate. > 33:00 <
This is a great video!