The new stop on the Blue and Yellow lines is Metro’s 98th station, located between the Reagan National Airport and Braddock Road stations.
New bus routes are set to open through the weekend to link the station to other parts of Alexandria and the region.
The station, officially named “Potomac Yard-VT,” will serve a Virginia Tech graduate campus that is under construction, nearby townhouse communities and a sprawling retail complex local officials say will be transformed in coming years. The station doesn’t have parking.“It’s our biggest economic development initiative. It’s our biggest transportation initiative. It’s our biggest climate initiative. It checks a lot of boxes for us,” said Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson .
City officials said special taxes on nearby companies that benefit from proximity to Metro ultimatelyThe station’s opening follows cost overruns, delays and three years of construction. The initial planned opening date of April 2022 was pushed to that summer, then Metro announced the station’s automatic train control system needed to be redesigned. A planned fall 2022 opening was postponed after crews ran into problems with soil and other issues.
“We appreciate the hard work and vision of the city to turn an idea more than 40-years in the making into reality,” Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said in a statement.
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