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Metro Shortening Some Station Names

Grosvenor-Strathmore will become just Grosvenor in 2012.

Soon, the days of unwieldy Metro station names will be over.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is planning to shorten 11 Metro station nicknames in 2012, including the Grosvenor-Strathmore station, according to a story in the Washington Examiner.

Below are the stations that will be abreviated, with their future names in bold.

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  • Grosvenor-Strathmore
  • Woodley Park Zoo/Adams Morgan
  • New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet
  • Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center
  • Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter
  • West Falls Church-VT/UVA
  • U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo
  • Vienna/Fairfax-GMU
  • Georgia Ave-Petworth
  • Dunn Loring-Merrifield
  • Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood


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