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The Capitol Riverfront is served by the Navy Yard – Ballpark and Capitol South stations on the Washington Metro system. The neighborhood is also served by I-395 and I-295 and by a circulator bus route to Union Station, and it is a 10-minute taxi ride to Reagan National Airport.
The Navy Yard – Ballpark station of the Washington Metro. In 2007, The United States Department of Transportation (USDoT) relocated to the area with a new headquarters on New Jersey Avenue . The Yards , a public-private development, began construction in 2007 and the entire project is to be completed in three phases over 10–20 years.
Navy Yard–Ballpark station after a Washington Nationals game in May 2009. Originally named simply Navy Yard for the nearby Washington Navy Yard, the station was renamed Navy Yard–Ballpark on November 3, 2011, reflecting the 2008 opening of Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team. [8]
Construction began in 1969, and in 1976 the first section of the Metro system opened along the Red Line between the Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue stations in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, more stations were opened in the city and the suburban communities of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and Fairfax County ...
Arlington Transit: 42, 74, 84, 87 Fairfax Connector: 599 Metrobus: 7A, 10A, 10N, 16E, 16M, 22A Washington Metro: Crystal City Station Bus Bay C (North) Bus Bay D (South) Bidirectional Virginia Railway Express (at Crystal City VRE) Arlington Transit: 43 Fairfax Connector: 599 Metrobus: 10N, 16M, 23A, 23B PRTC OmniRide Washington Metro: 18th ...
In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system. To accommodate these platform reconstructions, the Blue and Yellow Lines south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport would be closed from May 25 to September 8, 2019, in the longest line closure in Metro's history.
Washington Metro system map. The Orange Line is one of the six rapid transit lines of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 26 stations in Fairfax County and Arlington in Northern Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Orange Line runs from Vienna in Virginia to New Carrollton in Maryland.
During the War of 1812, the Navy Yard was important not only as a support facility but also as a vital strategic link in defense of the federal capital city. Sailors of the Navy Yard were part of the hastily assembled American militia army, which, at the tragic defeat at the August 1814 Battle of Bladensburg in Bladensburg, Maryland, northeast ...