Twenty-fourteen was the first year I became a daily Metro commuter. I had been working in Tysons for most of my career. I would occasionally use the 8W/8Z to Pentagon to Rosslyn to West Falls Church to Jones Branch Drive on the Fairfax Connector because I was so sick of driving from Alexandria to Tysons. That was 67 minutes on a good day.
My new job was in Arlington, near Courthouse Metro. I was pretty excited to be a regular Metro rider and started informally keeping track of the stations I visited.
By October, I changed jobs again with NoMa being the closest station to work. That was a pretty good commute – on Friday mornings, I would sometimes get from my bus stop on North Van Dorn Street to the NoMa station in 27 minutes. That was almost certainly faster than driving.
2014 stations
This list is in no particular order.
- Friendship Heights
- Metro Center
- Gallery Place
- Union Station
- NoMa*
- Fort Totten
- West Hyatttsville
- Mt. Vernon Square
- L’enfant Plaza
- Navy Yard
- Pentagon
- Pentagon City
- King Street
- Spring Hill*
- Whiele*
- Vienna
- Dunn Loring
- West Falls Church
- Ballston
- Virginia Square
- Clarendon
- Courthouse
- Rosslyn
- McPherson Sq
- Smithsonian
- Stadium Armory
Starting with 2022, I started posting my annual list of Metro stations entered/exited/transfered at on this web site. Previously, I kept more informal lists as email drafts.
I found them and decided to retroactively add them to the site.
* First ever visit
Silver Line first phase
In addition to becoming a regular commuter, my family and I welcomed the Silver Line opening on July 26. It was also my one-month old son’s first Metro ride. This was the second time I attended an opening of a Metro extension – I was the Orange Line to Vienna in 1986.
