Metro News Release

For immediate release: March 11, 2015

Metro Board slated to advance Potomac Yard Station

Finance Committee to consider approval of public hearing

Tomorrow, the Metro Board of Directors Finance and Administration Committee will consider approval of a public hearing regarding a new Metrorail station in the Potomac Yard area of the City of Alexandria.

If constructed, the Potomac Yard Metrorail Station would be added to the “Adopted Regional System,” for which the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority Compact requires a public hearing. An Environmental Impact Statement for the project is currently under review by the Federal Transit Administration and the National Park Service.

Construction would include a new Metrorail station, associated track improvements, and pedestrian bridges. The station would be located along the existing Metrorail Blue and Yellow Lines between the Reagan Washington National Airport Metrorail Station and the Braddock Road Metrorail Station. It would be the second “infill” station (i.e. a new station constructed between two existing stations) since the completion of NoMa-Gallaudet U Station in 2004.

The purpose of the project is to provide more transportation choices for current and future residents, employees and businesses by establishing a new access point to the Metrorail system from the Potomac Yard area. For more information about the project, please visit http://www.potomacyardmetro.com.

News release issued at 3:54 pm, March 11, 2015.