As Metro’s Silver Line continues its Virginia expansion, riders in Alexandria are looking forward to the new Potomac Yard stop, which will break up a three-mile stretch between the Braddock Road and National Airport stations. The city of Alexandria, which is paying for the $320-million project, anticipates that it will attract 26,000 jobs and 13,000 residents to the area when it opens in late 2021 or 2022.
But earlier this year, the area’s development pioneers got some bad news. It wasn’t about the trains, the tunnels, the escalators, or any of the other high-profile boo-boos that have bedeviled Metro. Rather, it was about the entrances to the station itself. Thanks to budget constraints, there would be one less of them.
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