ANC 5C02 Commissioner Robinson-Paul takes Tour of New York Avenue Station

ANC 5C02 Commissioner Robinson-Paul takes Tour of New York Avenue Station
Photos and story by Art Slater
July 26, 2004

Construction on the New York Avenue Metrorail Station is well underway and is on schedule to meet its November 2004 opening. ANC 5C02 Commissioner Joyce Robinson-Paul took a recent tour of the New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U Station with Project Manager John Thomas. Although the station is located in ANC 6C, ANC 5C borders it to the north and west. With funding of $103.7 million, the station will be the 84th in the Metrorail system and the first to be built between two existing stations.

Commissioner Robinson-Paul gets a point across to Project Manager John Thomas.

Sight lines from the future bike path converge on the Capitol.

The yellow truck prepares the spot where present tracks will be diverted to enter the station.

Workers get a birds-eye view.

A view facing north from the bike path.

Commissioner Robinson-Paul and Manager Thomas go for a closer look.

Scaffolding gets fitted into place.

A view of First and N Streets, NW in the distance. Commissioner Robinson-Paul hopes to get approval to open the road leading to the station for easier community access. The final decision is subject to ATF review.

Another view of First and N Streets, NW.

The station's developers and sponsors.

ANC 5C02 Commissioner Joyce Robinson-Paul and Metro New York Avenue Station Project Manager John Thomas.

Map of the station site
Courtesy of Metro

Fun facts about New York Avenue Station
Courtesy of Metro

13,000 cubic yards of concrete will be used to build the station. This is equivalent to the weight of 711 Metro rail cars, or a train of 75 ft. rail cars stretching 10 miles between Medical Center station and Union Station.
The volume of concrete used to construct the station would fill the interiors of 67 Metrorail cars.
1.65 million pounds of reinforcing steel will be embedded into the concrete and precast structures to increase their loadbearing capacity. This is equivalent to the weight of 22 Metrorail cars weighing 37 tons each.
100,000 tons of soil have been excavated. The volume of soil excavated would fill the interiors of 514 Metro rail cars extending the seven miles between New York Avenue and Silver Spring stations.
The weight of soil excavated equals that of 2,700 Metrorail cars or of one continuous train stretching the 38 miles between Washington and Baltimore.

ANC 5C02 Commissioner Joyce Robinson-Paul can be reached at jpaul@verizon.net

Project Manager John Thomas can be reached at 202-636-8511 or you may write to him at:

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
1111 2nd Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20002