Spring Hill station explained

Spring Hill
Style:WMATA
Symbol:silver
Symbol Location:washington
Address:1576 Spring Hill Road
Borough:Tysons, Virginia
Coordinates:38.9292°N -77.2419°W
Connections: Fairfax Connector: 424, 432, 494, 574
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Structure:Elevated
Bicycle:Capital Bikeshare, 20 lockers and 22 bike racks
Passengers:502 daily[1]
Pass Year:2023
Pass Rank:96 out of 98
Opened:[2]
Code:N04
Owned:WMATA
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-metro
Marker-Color:
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Spring Hill station (preliminary names Tysons West, Tysons–Spring Hill Road)[3] [4] is a Washington Metro station in Fairfax County, Virginia, on the Silver Line. Located in Tysons, it began operation on July 26, 2014. The station is located in the central median of Leesburg Pike (SR 7) just west of Spring Hill Road.

There had been some controversy about whether to build the rail through Tysons below ground or on elevated tracks. The efforts to build a tunnel through all of Tysons failed, and the current design has the main platform with a height of 48feet at its east end and 51feet at its west end.[5]

The station is about from, the next station to the west, but only about from directly to the southeast.

Spring Hill is the least used DC Metro station in Fairfax County at 609 entries per weekday in 2023.[6]

Station facilities

History

From May 23 until August 15, 2020, this station was closed due to the Platform Reconstruction west of and the Silver Line Phase II tie construction.[7] This station reopened beginning on August 16, 2020, when trains were able to bypass East Falls Church station.[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Metrorail Ridership Summary . Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority . February 11, 2024.
  2. News: All aboard! Metro's new Silver Line rolls down the tracks for the first time. . Washington Post . May 28, 2018.
  3. News: Board of Supervisors Approves Proposed Silver Line Station Names. April 10, 2012. April 11, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120515065249/http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/2012/updates/board-approves-silver-line-station-names.htm. May 15, 2012. mdy-all.
  4. News: Fairfax OKs names for new Metrorail stations. Washington Post. Hosh. Kafia. March 29, 2011. March 29, 2011.
  5. Web site: DCMP Station Heights Actual. WMAA. November 10, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100620033639/http://www.dullesmetro.com/pdfs/DCMPStationHeights-2-18-09.docx. June 20, 2010. mdy-all.
  6. Web site: 11 January 2024 . Metrorail Ridership Summary . 11 January 2024 . WMATA.
  7. Web site: Metro to use upcoming low-ridership summer to maximum effect, expands Orange, Silver line shutdown . www.wmata.com . 23 April 2020.
  8. Web site: Metro to add more buses, trains and extended hours as part of Covid-19 Recovery Plan beginning Sunday, August 16 WMATA . www.wmata.com . 16 August 2020.
  9. Web site: Silver Line service will return August 16, along with reopening of six stations in Fairfax County WMATA . www.wmata.com . 11 July 2020.

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