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Fort Totten

The section of the Green/Yellow Line platform where the canopy meets the underground section of the platform

Station statistics

Address

550 Galloway Street, Northeast,
Washington, D.C. 20011

Lines

Red Line

Green Line

Yellow Line (off-peak hours)

Connections

WMATA Metrobus

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

2 upper level, 2 lower level

Parking

408 spaces

Bicycle facilities

10 racks, 6 lockers

Other information

Opened

February 6, 1978

Accessible

Code

B06 (upper level)
E06 (lower level)

Owned by

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Services

Preceding station	Washington Metro	Following station
Brookland-CUA toward Shady Grove	Red Line	Takoma toward Glenmont
Georgia Ave-Petworth toward Branch Avenue	Green Line	West Hyattsville toward Greenbelt
Georgia Ave-Petworth toward Huntington	Yellow Line	Terminus

Fort Totten is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Green, Yellow (Off-Peak), and Red Lines; it is a transfer station between the Green/Yellow Lines and the Red. It is also the last Green Line station in the District of Columbia going northeast.

Fort Totten is located in the middle of Fort Totten Park in Northeast and is accessed via Galloway Street. The station is considered to be in the neighborhood of Fort Totten, and is a short distance from the neighborhoods of Manor Park and Riggs Park.

Service began on the Red Line (upper) platform on February 6, 1978, and on the Green Line (lower) platform on December 11, 1993. The name comes from a Civil War-era fortification which itself was named after General Joseph Gilbert Totten, the Chief Engineer of the antebellum US Army.

The lower-level platform for the Green Line (and the Yellow Line during off-peak times) is unique in that it is built into a hillside, part underground in a rock tunnel, and part at ground level in an open cut. A single-track connection east of the station allows trains to be moved between the Red and Green Lines, and was once used for the Green Line Commuter Shortcut service to Farragut North via the Red Line tracks, before the mid-city segment of the Green Line was completed in September 1999.

Beginning on December 31, 2006 as part of an 18-month trial, Metro extended Yellow Line service to Fort Totten station during non-rush hours and weekends.^[1] In a press release, Councilmember Jim Graham said that the service change would support the "development and urban lifestyle" of the neighborhoods between the Fort Totten and Mount Vernon Square stations.^[2]

On June 22, 2009, two southbound Metro trains on the Red Line collided between the Takoma and Fort Totten stations, killing 9 and injuring 80, the deadliest accident in the system's history.^[3]