United States Department of Transportation
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Final Environmental Impact Statement: Metropolitan Washington Regional Rapid Rail Transit System Project DC-23-9001: (Part 2)
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1975-08-01
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Abstract:The Rockville or A Route serves Washington from the downtown core through the rapidly developing upper-income corridors of Connecticut Avenue, upper Wisconsin Avenue and Rockville Pike to the New Town Center Development of Rockville, Maryland. Beginning at Metro Center Station, the transfer point of the A, B, C, and D Routes at 12th and G Streets, the route travels west to 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue in cutand-cover. Here, the route tunnels northwest across Lafayette Park to an alignment centered on Connecticut Avenue. The route proceeds northward to Farragut North Station and continues under Connecticut Avenue in cut-and-cover construction to a point just -south of Dupont Circle Station where rock tunnel construction begins. In the vicinity of Kalorama Road the alignment gently curves to the east of Connecticut Avenue to avoid the foundations of the Taft Bridge. The alignment crosses under Rock Creek Park, in cut-and-cover construction. Once past the bridge, it shifts back to rock tunnel in line with Connecticut Avenue. The route continues along Connecticut Avenue passing the Zoological Park and Cleveland Park Stations until it reaches the area of the Washington Technical Institute and Van Ness Center Station. There, the A Route curves west past Idaho Street, and into the alignment of Yuma Street to 39th Street, N.W. There, it curves north from the Tenley Circle Station passing east of Tenley Circle where it joins the alignment of Wisconsin Avenue below Brandywine Street. Continuing in rock tunnel, the route passes Friendship Heights Station at the District/Chevy Chase line, the Bethesda Station near the intersection of East-West Highway and Wisconsin Avenue, and Medical Center Station at the entrance to the National Institutes of Health.
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