Dupont Circle is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C.
on the Red Line that opened for service on January 17, 1977.
The station, which serves the neighborhood of Dupont Circle, has
two entrances: the north entrance, on Q Street Northwest between
Connecticut Avenue and 20th Street Northwest (which opened in January 1977),
and the south entrance, on 19th Street Northwest between Dupont Circle and
Sunderland Place (which opened in March 1977).
The station's north entrance escalators are 188 feet (57 m) long.
The station was constructed underneath a former streetcar tunnel and another
tunnel that carries Connecticut Avenue traffic.
It is the fifth-busiest station in the Metrorail system, averaging 23,400 passengers
per weekday as of May 2006.
In 2007, a portion of the poem The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman was inscribed
into the granite wall around the north entrance escalators:
Thus in silence in dreams'projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals;
The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all dark night - some are so young;
Some suffer so much - I recall the experience sweet and sad,...
October 8, 2018