Talk:Wheaton station (Washington Metro)

Escalator Length
Just for consistency's sake, I think we should figure out the exact length/depth of the Wheaton Metro Station/Escalator. The Metro Fact .pdf link off the main Washington Metro page says the escalator is 230 feet long. Here on this page, it says the escalator is 508 feet long while the station is 230 feet deep. However, the Forest Glenn Station is 196 feet deep according to the aforementiond Metro Fact page.

Given a 30 degree angle (standard on escalators, I believe), the Forest Glenn Station's escalator (if it had one) would be only 392 feet long. On the same token, given a 508 foot long escalator at a 30 degree angle, the Wheaton Station should be 254 feet deep.

I just wanted to do some fancy math (which I probably screwed up), but the point is that I think we should change this page to reflect what the WMATA page says, which would make the Wheaton escalator 230 feet long (and the station 115 feet deep).--Rmeskill 19:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * If it helps, I think (I'm not sure) that the Wheaton lobby is above ground, that is, in an elevated building. That could account for the difference in height. The other discrepancies need dealing with, though. I've found WMATA receptive to email questions, someone should ask. --Golbez 20:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Wheaton's mezzanine is on the ground at street level. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Street level is not a helpful descriptor here. The mezzanine is actually directly under Georgia Ave, but it is about the same level as nearby Veirs Mill Rd. Also, my trip down the escalator yesterday took only 2:45, as opposed to the 3:00 mentioned in the article. --Jenkins 151.207.244.4 19:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)


 * "The Wheaton station, a mile down the street, has 230-foot escalators, the longest outside of Leningrad." From the article "Wheaton, Forest Glen To Climb Aboard Metro", September 16, 1990, Washington Post Tjamro 18:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

"...though some commuters shorten the time by walking." Does this sentence fragment add any value to the article? If a reader has ever ridden an escalator, they understand that people often walk up them and thus it adds no value. If a reader has not, it means nothing to them and thus it adds no value. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.56.3.125 (talk) 14:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

escalator length, bethesda vs. wheaton subway stations
Pls note that the Wiki entry for Bethesda states the main escalator is 475 ft, and shorter than Wheaton, which WMATA states is 230 ft. (I suspect WMATA has its information wrong.)

The Bethesda article and the Wheaton article should probably acknowledge each other's inconsistencies. Bethesda's article points to this Wa Po article which graphs the 5 longest escalators in the system (just the lengths of the escalators, not their relations to street or platform) and agrees with 475 ft/508 ft:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/06/03/CU2005060301365.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.100.19.190 (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * WaPo is sadly wrong in this case, that graphic is six years of misinformation. Check the article history, and I asked a local but prominent blog to look into it and they measured it as matching WMATA, not WaPo. So the Bethesda article needs to be changed. --Golbez (talk) 18:27, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Second deepest or third deepest station?
According to the Woodley Park station article, its station depth is listed as 154 feet, yet this article claims that Wheaton, at 140 feet deep, is the second deepest station behind Forest Glen. If the depth numbers are accurate, it should be that Forest Glen is deepest, Woodley Park is second, and Wheaton is third. However, I can't find an official source on the station depths. Can anyone confirm the station depths to confirm whether Woodley Park or Wheaton is deeper? (On a side note, Woodley Park has multiple spans of escalators going down instead of the single span in Wheaton, so the escalator record should remain unaffected.) 76.111.100.227 (talk) 16:47, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Best I can find is which is not exactly a reliable source, but it corrobates what you say. Maybe a quick email to WMATA, they might respond. --Golbez (talk) 17:03, 28 October 2015 (UTC)