Addison Road station is a rapid transit station on the Washington Metro's

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and

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Lines. It is operated by the

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, who opened it in 1980. It was the eastern end of the Blue Line until 2004. The station is in Seat Pleasant on Central Avenue, although its official address puts it in Capitol Heights.

History

The station, which has a single central platform, opened on November 22, 1980, and coincided with the completion of of rail east of the

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and the opening of the

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and Capitol Heights stations. The station features escalators with the elevator between them as seen at North Bethesda and

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between the mezzanine and platform. The station was originally named "Addison Road"; the name "Seat Pleasant" was added in 2000 and moved to a new subtitle location in 2011. It was the eastern terminus of the Blue Line from its opening until December 18, 2004, when the extension to the Largo Town Center (now known as ) station opened to the east. In the early eighties, due to peculiarities of the system at the time, trains travelling ''toward'' Addison Road showed blue rollsigns, but switched to orange signs before departing westward, back into the city. In December 2003, security cameras at this station filmed a

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walking around the station mezzanine, running down an escalator, and going down the platform past a waiting train, as startled passengers watched. The deer then jumped onto the tracks and escaped into nearby woods. Metro spokesperson Lisa Farbstein reported that Metro had nicknamed the deer "Rudolph the Blue Line Reindeer". In December 2012, Addison Road was one of five stations added to the route of the Silver Line, which was originally supposed to end at the station, but was extended into

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, Maryland, to Largo (the eastern terminus of the Blue Line) due to safety concerns about a

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just past Stadium-Armory. Silver Line service at Addison Road began on July 26, 2014. In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system. The platform at the Addison Road station would be rebuilt from February 13 to May 23, 2021.

References

External links

* * The Schumin Web Transit Center
Addison Road–Seat Pleasant Station

Central Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{Authority control Stations on the Blue Line (Washington Metro) Stations on the Silver Line (Washington Metro) Washington Metro stations in Maryland Railway stations in the United States opened in 1980 1980 establishments in Maryland