Minnesota Avenue station

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Minnesota Avenue station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Central Northeast/Mahaning Heights neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on November 20, 1978, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Providing service for the Orange and Silver Lines.

On the Orange and Silver Line’s westbound service, Minnesota Ave is the last station before crossing the Anacostia River, as well as the last above-ground station until East Falls Church in Virginia. West of the station, trains curve over RFK Stadium parking lots before descending underground.

Location

Minnesota Avenue station is located between Kenilworth Avenue and Minnesota Avenue, at Grant Street, immediately east of the CSX Landover Subdivision rail bed. The station is an east-Washington commuter station with a small parking lot and many Metrobuses serving the east side of the city from here. It is also southwest of the historic western terminus of the Chesapeake Beach Railway.

History

The station opened on November 20, 1978.<ref name="November 12, 1978">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="November 18, 1978">Template:Cite news</ref> Its opening coincided with the completion of Template:Convert<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> of rail northeast of the Stadium–Armory station and the opening of the Cheverly, Deanwood, Landover, and New Carrollton stations.<ref name="November 12, 1978" /><ref name="November 18, 1978" />

In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> New Carrollton station was closed from May 28, 2022, through September 5, 2022, as part of the summer platform improvement project, which also affected the Minnesota Avenue, Deanwood, Cheverly, and Landover stations on the Orange Line. Shuttle buses and free parking were provided at the closed stations.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On September 10, 2022, Blue Line trains started serving the station due to the 14th Street bridge shutdown as a part of the Blue Plus service.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The service ended on May 7, 2023 with the reopening of the Yellow Line.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Half of Silver Line trains began operating between Template:Wmata and Template:Wmata on June 22, 2025.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

Station Layout

The Minnesota Avenue station consists of an at-grade island platform situated between CSX freight track tracks, built on unneeded land within the existing right-of-way. The station fare gates and mezzanine exist in a basement level underneath the south end of the platform, with entrances from both sides of the right-of-way. A bus bay exists outside of the southeast exit, located between Minnesota Avenue itself and the station entrance.