Alexandria Mulls Potomac Yard Metrorail Station

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WANT TO HOP the Yellow Line to Potomac Yard? You can't right now, of course, but officials in Alexandria are in the early stages of considering whether to add a Metrorail station near the $2.6 billion office, retail and residential complex taking shape there, The Post's Lena H. Sun reports.

Don't expect a new station any time soon, though, Sun reports:

City officials say it will be several more years before they decide whether they can come up with the estimated $150 million required for constructing a station. ...

Last week Metro and city officials met to discuss cost and feasibility of building a station.

"We think this will be a great addition to the system," Metro General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. said today at a regional transportation forum.

If approved, the new station, which would sit between the National Airport and Braddock Road stops, would be the second "in-fill" station — a stop built in the middle of an existing line — added to the system. The first was the New York Avenue station, which was opened on the Red Line in 2004.

» "Alexandria to Consider Adding Yellow Line Metro Stop" [WaPo]