Greater Greater Washington, 7/12/17:
Coming soon: A pedestrian tunnel at the King Street Metro station
A rendering of a pedestrian tunnel between Alexandria Union Station (on the right) and the King Street Metro station (left).
King Street station in Alexandria serves Metro, VRE, and Amtrak trains. But its layout is inefficient and hard to use. Virginia is providing money to build a new pedestrian tunnel that solves those problems.
There are two big problems at King Street station: First, Passengers can't walk directly between the Metro station and the Virginia Railway Express (VRE)/Amtrak station, even though they're right next to each other. Second, although there are three tracks for VRE/Amtrak trains, passengers can only reach two of them, which cuts the capacity of the station.
Continue here.
VRE: Alexandria Pedestrian Tunnel