Court House station


Court House station is an island platformed Washington Metro station in the Courthouse neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, United States. The station was opened on December 1, 1979, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Weekday ridership is approximately 7,000 passengers per day. The station serves the Orange and Silver Lines.

Location

As the name implies, the station is located near the Arlington County government and court complex, with its main entrance at the intersection of Wilson Boulevard and Uhle Street.

History

The station opened on December 1, 1979. Its opening coincided with the completion of approximately of rail west of the Rosslyn station and the opening of the Clarendon, Virginia Square and Ballston stations. Presently, there are long-range plans to create a new entrance for the station at its western end. These plans envision an elevator that would connect the western end of the platform to a location near the corner of Clarendon Boulevard and Barton Street.

Station layout

This station is rather deep - it is the third deepest station on the Orange Line behind L'Enfant Plaza and Rosslyn, and is located 80 feet below street level. Similar to most Red Line north of Cleveland Park, Court House contains an upper underpass mezzanine 20 feet below the street level. A long bank of escalators, with a length of 80 feet and a vertical rise of 40 feet connects the upper mezzanine to the lower mezzanine. The platforms are located 20 feet below that.
Court House is one of the few DC metro stations outside the Red Line that contain deep-bored, elliptical escalator banks.