Escalator in the Washington, DC Metro

In Albums: city

Jun 7th, 2002, by Alex Zorach

This is a very long escalator in a Metro station in Washington, D.C. Some of the metro stations in DC are very deep beneath ground, and require these extremely long escalators to get between the trains and the street.

I find this an odd photo...there is something oddly train-track-like about the look of it, which fits with where the escalator is going. I do not like the look-and-feel of the architecture in the DC metro; it strikes me as sterile and uniform, cold and foreboding. This escalator and the unnatural-looking concrete tube that it sits in are no exceptions to this rule. I strongly prefer the classic tile decor and more blocky, squareish architecture of the New York City subway.