BGuthrie Photos: Metro Station -- Fort Totten

Metro Station -- Fort Totten:

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Description of Pictures: Including an empty parking lot on a Saturday due to Covid-19 slowdown. The parking lot was initially free during Covid but that changed in July.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. METFT_200418_01.JPG: This was the parking lot on a Saturday just after noon during Covid-19. Basically, empty.
2. METFT_200418_65.JPG: The first and last cars are dark to protect the operator from Covid-19.
3. METFT_200418_78.JPG: The hand rails are now two colors. They used to be red. Most of the stations still have the black ones.
4. METFT_200530_01.JPG: The Fort Totten Metro parking lot has been pretty well empty since Covid-19 started.
5. METFT_200530_22.JPG: Stations have to be cleaned periodically due to Covid-19.
6. METFT_201017_01.JPG: Someone at the 14th Street Graffiti Museum said this was done by Borf.
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Wikipedia Description: Fort Totten (WMATA station)
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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. 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.

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.
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