Metro wants to expand Stadium-Armory station to handle Commanders crowds

The big picture: After the release of a new transit study Tuesday, Clarke is calling for D.C. to fund an overhaul of the station's layout, including an "extended mezzanine" and more elevators and expanded entrances to get crowds moving.

• "We need to distribute that load, otherwise people will be waiting upstairs for a couple hours after a game," Clarke says on a forthcoming episode of the "Dream City Podcast," co-hosted by Tom Sherwood and me. (Full interview comes out Monday!)
• "Our current station doesn't work," Clarke adds, but the good news is that the station serves three lines — Orange, Silver and Blue. "We can run tons of trains."

The intrigue: One of the long-running neighborhood debates has been about adding a new above-ground station at Oklahoma Avenue and Benning Road NE, serving both new visitors and the existing Kingman Park neighborhood.

• Metro found that it might cost $1 billion and that technical roadblocks are in the way: the station would be on a slope and would require a sharp turn to go across the Anacostia River, Clarke says.

• "I'm not sure how this got a lot of legs in the past," he says. "It doesn't meet any of our standards where we'd build a station."

What's ahead: DDOT didn't immediately comment on whether D.C. would help fund the station expansion project. Metro's study says coming up with cost estimates is part of the next steps.

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