Friendship Heights station is a

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on the Red Line straddling the border of

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, and Montgomery County,

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. The station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the

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(WMATA).

Location

The station is at the 5400 block of

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and serves the neighborhoods of

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and

Friendship Heights Friendship Heights is an urban commercial and residential neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland. Though its borders are not clearly defined, Friendship Heights consists roughly of the neighborhoods ...

. The area is a major retail shopping and broadcast media district. The station also serves as a bus depot linking Montgomery County Transit's Ride-On bus system with the Washington Metro. It is directly adjacent to the Western Division Metrobus garage on 44th Street and Harrison Street NW.

Notable places nearby

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Headquarters * Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home * The Shops at Wisconsin Place, Chevy Chase Pavilion, and other shopping centers *

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, WMAL-FM, WLVW,

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, and

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radio stations

History

The station opened on August 25, 1984. Its opening coincided with the completion of of rail northwest of the

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and the opening of the Bethesda, Grosvenor, Medical Center, and

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stations.

Station layout

The Friendship Heights station uses the four-coffer arch design found at most underground stations on the western side of the Red Line, but it is the only Metro station with this design that has mezzanines at both ends of the platform. The station's walls are more rounded than counterparts such as Van Ness-UDC and Tenleytown-AU. It is one of 11 Metro stations constructed with rock tunneling and is accordingly deeper than most other stations. Its platform is more than below its north entrance. The escalator has a length of and rises feet above the mezzanine level. The escalator ride from the common room at the north entrance to the mezzanine level takes roughly a minute and a half. The station has entrances to both its northern and southern ends. The southern end is served by a bank of four high-speed elevators that connect the south mezzanine to a street-level exit at Wisconsin Avenue and Jenifer Street NW, which was built in 1985. At the northern end, four street entrances come together in an upper mezzanine, leading to a set of three escalators to the platform. Two of these entrances are on the Maryland side of Western Avenue, and two are on the District side. The station's main entrance surfaces in a bus depot underneath the Chevy Chase Metro Building. Another comes from a side entrance to the lobby of an entrance to the former C-level of Mazza Gallerie. Another goes to Chevy Chase Pavilion. The newest entrance, located off Wisconsin Avenue next to The Shops at Wisconsin Place, opened between 2011 and 2022, replacing an earlier entrance that led into a

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References

External links

* * The Schumin Web Transit Center
Friendship Heights Station

Western Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

Jennifer Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
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