Metro News Release
For immediate release: July 14, 2005
Metro Announces Initial Plans to Modify the Navy Yard Metrorail Station to Coincide with the New Baseball Stadium
Enhancements to the Navy Yard Metrorail station are being planned to serve fans attending games at the new stadium.
Today, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) Board Budget Committee authorized $500,000 for initial planning and preliminary designs to modify the Navy Yard Metrorail station on the Green Line in preparation for the opening of the District of Columbia’s new baseball stadium one block south of the station.
Final approval of these funds is expected at the July 21 Metro Board of Directors meeting.
Currently, the Navy Yard’s station west entrance, located at M and Half Street, S.E., can accommodate approximately 5,000 people per hour. In order to accommodate up to 15,000 baseball fans traveling through the station per hour on game day, several enhancements are necessary.
The following modifications are proposed to the existing west entrance:
extend the mezzanine to add a staircase and one escalator;
increase the number of fare gates, and vending machines;
install a new kiosk;
install new elevators from the street to the mezzanine, and the mezzanine to the platform.
Additionally, on game days, it is proposed that the west entrance would be converted to one-way operations before and after the game for greater passenger flow into and out of the station. Patrons wishing to use the Navy Yard station in a direction opposite the one-way direction would use the station’s east entrance two blocks away.
Initial funds for planning and engineering is provided by the District of Columbia. The final cost of modifying the west entrance will be determined as part of the planning and preliminary design effort.
News release issued on July 14, 2005.