Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood

But for the fact that there are helpful station managers here, this station should be closed for serious repairs. It rained heavily yesterday, trains single tracking, and a “crush load” of people lined the platform in triple rows. Crush load is the term the conductor used. And this is where we waited for the train. The amount of water coming down on the platform was crazy. The water found its way through the overhead shelter and through speakers and every crack and crevice. Not to mention the constant drips over the escalators we deal with when it is not raining, is annoying at best. Plus it’s not like it’s clean water dripping. Metro do better. You want everyone to pay their fare but you do little to improve the station. Focus on safety and sanitary conditions before another price hike please.

Nice surrounding area with a bit of a view as this is an elevated platform. Station is pretty clean and staff is helpful... this was my first time taking the Metro and they helped explain it/ fees best way to pay etc.

Saturday morning's train to Glenmont is the worst. The first train is often delayed by 30 mins although the app says by a few minutes. All while the opposite platform to Shady Grove runs on time. Metro needs to get it together because it's always something Saturday mornings heading to Glenmont. Absolute worse

The Bus driver’s are very rude at this station. T18 T14 and 86 and 83 they pull right off before schedule time in customer face. The customer service is never pleasant. Manly in the evening time. Sad

The metro station is clean.... The Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood Metro Station is located at 919 Rhode Island Ave NE, Washington, DC 20018... `Convenience: The station serves the Brentwood neighborhood and provides easy access to the Red Line, making it a convenient option for commuters heading to and from downtown Washington, D.C... `Facilities: The station offers amenities such as ticket machines, fare gates, and accessible entrances. There are also bus bays and parking facilities nearby.... `Service: The station is part of the Red Line, with frequent service to Shady Grove. It's well-connected with Metrobus and Ride On services.... `Safety: It's recommended to stay aware of your surroundings and avoid being on your phone while navigating the station... `Crowds: The station can get quite crowded during peak hours, especially in the mornings and evenings... overall a neat and clean metro station....

My favorite metro station. Very nice view of Rhode Island Row on the platform.

Nice station. The new apartments give it a newer feel. It has a good view of the city, too.

This is my first time going to the DMV and spent less time. I turned in my old car tags. I was 2nd on the line. I received a waiting number, but I was called less than 5 minutes. A nice employee, Ms. Mrs Ruther attended me. She answered all my questions, and she even wanted to help look up my new registration, but it was too early. She gave me good advice, so I went directly from there to the emission station in SW. Now, I got my new car inspected.

For a short period of time, due to track maintenance, Rhode Island Ave Metro was my transfer point. It was not joyful in the least. Riding a bus is never joyful, but to have to take the bus for nearly an hour makes it less joyful. The station itself is fine, when you just view it as a station and nothing else. But when you actually use the entirety of the station, i.e., transfer, bus, walk from, there is no way to actually like this station. If you happen to have to transfer here, it's not bad, but if you want to catch one of the many buses here, prepare yourself to battle to get onto the bus. Or, just hope and pray that the bus will show up at a scheduled time. There was one day where I had to wait for over an hour and a half for a bus to come. No reason given, employees working the bus bays didn't care. In fact, one bus going my way was told to switch the line they were running to another one to accommodate backups. Mind you, there was a major backup for the line I needed. Compound that with the fact that when it downpours, only a portion of the bus bays are covered. So when it does rain, there is major overcrowding to keep from getting wet. Or you just suck it up, get drenched, and hope that your bus shows up shortly. Which was me one day. Flying by here on the train or having to stop at the station every so often is fine. But if I never have to actually use this physical station, I am fine by that.

Brentwood has a Metro station. It's located on Rhode Island Avenue. Location is the best thing about it. Close to some places to eat. There's a large bus station to get on. Clean mostly and plentiful ways to commute. It serves the Red Line. This place isn't such a long wait for trains. Also there's busses. This makes it convenient to get to and from by many methods. It overall seems pretty clean. It's outdoors and can get cold but it means there isn't such a bad smell here. This is one of the better stations because of various modes of transportation.

There's a lot to love about the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station. It's close to two shopping areas, one with the only Home Depot in D.C. It has several walkways with beautiful views of the city that lead to the Metropolitan Branch Trail. It's a lively Metro Station!

8/13/21 Upon visiting this area on Saturday August 7th, I saw a number of things good and bad.  For starters, I saw a lot of scandalous graffiti in some areas of the housing, businesses  and train stations.  Some of the  graffiti just liked horrible.  However,  some graffiti artist actually had good works of art on the back of some buildings.  One such art caught my attention Under The Bridge of Noma-Gallaudet. I wasn't able to get a photo of it, because of technical difficulties with my phone.    Still  the buildings that had some pictures if graffiti on them made the look of the buildings the train  passes look more inviting. The area of Rhode Island-Brentwood several years ago looked like a rundown dump. Hell, Metro Station area looked like a dump too once upon a time. From what I saw on that Saturday  of August 7th, Rhode Island-Brentwood looked to be going through makeover...no, no, no...an upgrade of what its former self use to look like.   It is still in the early stages, but I expect to see big improvements.  These improvements could mean a lot of the riff raff (as some would call the undesirables) to leave the area or become hobos on the upgraded streets.  Some of this has been seen around Metro Station, Union Station and Noma- Gallaudet University. Stepping in human excrement or almost stepping in human excrement is bad enough, but coming across this webpage takes it to limit one more time. https://www.livescience.com/amp/14669-poop-meat-safety.html If you ever saw the movie Judge Dreed with Sylvester Stallone, there is a scene where you hear a robot say "Eat recycled food, for a happier, healthier life. Recycled food: it's good for the environment and OK for you."  Don't get me started on the food  served from Star Trek Discovery...maybe all the Star Trek movies..., but I am digressing once again. Rhode Island-Brentwood is changing and I think as the improvements come more people of ethnicity will appear in the neighborhoods.  I look forward to seeing more of the changes happening around this area.

The Structure: This is one of my favorite metro stops because of how open it is. I love all of the bridges and all of the views. It also connects to the metropolitan branch trail (MBT) which is getting a lot of development. The whole surrounding area is getting a lot of development in which it will make the area even more walkable with a lot of retail and entertainment. Overall, I think it has potential to be a great metro stop and feels like a piece of history compared to the underground stops. Love being able to have service during my ride! The Cleanliness/Safety: I have not experienced or noticed any form of trash or loitering in this area. Its the typical commuters going in and out. I've been on the metro during all times of the day and have never felt unsafe even at night. I'm assuming since there is so much development going on, there may be more patrol going on. However, its well lit and pretty clean, as much as any high traffic area! The Retail: Besides the staple chipotle, dunkin donuts, and cvs being right off the metro. There is also the dmv and clinic which is really convenient. As well as a giant and home depot with a parking lot, which is a rare find for the city! I do hope more unique restaurants come to the area and other coffee shops but pretty content with the current retail.

It's okay... it's not the best of the metro stations by any means, lots of kids and food traffic on the foot bridge and on the platform itself. nice little bike path on the other end of the bridge into a nice new little community. But just like several metro stations, they currently have only 1 working escalator, so people like myself with knee and ankle issues that can't really do stairs are relegated to the elevator in hopes that it's working. Could use a good cleanup on the foot bridge, lots of vulgar graffiti that metro should do better with taking care of...

This is hands down the best metro stop if you need to go to a Home Depot. Five stars for facilitating all my home improvement projects!

I'm not particularly a fan of this metro station. It's outdoors and sucks in the winter-that's a ding right there. The trains are semi-unreliable, another ding. The other people waiting at the station range from normal to pretty sketchy, another ding. There are some places right around the metro station (chipotle, some BBQ place), but nothing really worth frequenting unless you are already out that way. I don't currently frequent this station often and I plan to keep it that way.

As far as metro stations go, I suppose it's fairly clean. There are cops in the morning, which might be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you interpret it. There are the usual bums and loiterers asking for a quarter or five cents, the friendly morning Express paper distributor, and the unintelligible personnel working the booths. Although there are Smartrip and paper farecard machines on both sides of the station, half of them are unable to read the Smartrip card or are out of service for some malfunction. This is an upstairs, outside station with few shelters. There is a parking garage close by, and several buses service this station, including P6 (goes to Chinatown and Anacostia) and D8 (goes to Union Station).

I should preface this by saying that for the several times I went to this station during my short stint in DC I was not spat on, nor did I encounter any problems. In fact, many people would greet Miss Sarit and I with a "good morning" and "hello" as they were walking by on the street leading up to this station. The reason why it received two stars instead of the 3-ish it would have received otherwise is because it is dirty! I mean DIRTY. There was some poor soul's weave on the ground all day. A. WEAVE. In addition to this nastiness there were wrappers, gum, garbage etc. The area immediately surrounding the train did not look too bad, I remember some newer looking buildings that may have been great apartments / condos. The major plus to this station is that it is only a few stops away from all the cool touristy things. The major downside is that DC's train system is expensive! How are you gonna charge 1$ every. time. I. use. a. paper. card??? Just let me keep the card, and don't give me a 400, 000% upcharge on a piece of paper. Get with the program, DC!

I call those 2010 and 2011 reviews gentrifying pains- things have much much changed- high price luxury apartments have opened at the station; a Chipotle and a Sala Thai have already opened , with a Carolina Kitchen planned; down the street is an upscale condo building plus a host of apartment buildings that make this neighborhood within ten minutes of Shaw and Logan Circle a great deal for a DC neighborhood .

I normally don't write reviews, but after the experience I had at this metro station I had to say something. I live near this metro station and use it as my regular commute, and have witnessed the unintelligible workers allowing people to go through the emergency exit or jump over the turnstiles without paying on at least a dozen occasions without so much as batting an eye. One morning I was rushing to work and my metro card wasn't working even though I had sufficient funds on it. I looked to the worker in the booth for help and without looking up from what he was reading, he seemed to gesture at me to go around and use the emergency exit. I did so, walked to the escalator, and this man proceeded to YELL at me and bang on the window from 10 feet away, causing everyone around me to turn and stare. I kept trying to tell him I was running late for work and didn't understand why he was yelling. The worker proceeded to put his hands together in prayer and continue pleading at me in incomprehensible words, until he finally clarified that he wanted me to come back and try my card again, which caused me to miss my train. It is deplorable that these WMATA workers will let bums hang around in this station to shake down people for money, will allow people who are obvious troublemakers to jump the turnstile and use the metro without paying, but have the audacity to yell at an obvious business professional for no reason. Management needs to enforce consistent standards across the board.

I park in the official metro station parking. It is generally convenient but the crime against cars is unfortunate. Months ago, my car was broken into and there was not a single WMATA police officer to be found. I called 911 and waited for the DC Police officer who insisted that it was WMATA's jurisdiction and that they should be handling the issue. He called multiple times and no one ever came. So the DC police handled the complaint.

People here will spit on you. Spit on you. Spit. On. You. Walking past someone leaning against the wall? He'll spit on you. Sitting on a sheltered bench on the platform while talking on the phone? A woman will be sure to stop by and spit on you. Also, there are three escalators and two of them are always going down. Not out of order. Moving downwards. As in you can't even use them when there are immobile megatheria taking the only passage up besides the elevator.

One of the nicer stations due to all the new development around the station. Station looks new but don't be fooled it's been around forever. Watch out for parking. A friend had her car stolen from the covered garage next to the station. Good for drop offs or walk bys but definitely not for folks driving and parking at the lot to catch the metro

I have no idea why you're reading this review. A metro stop isn't something you need to read up on. Good or bad, you just use it to get from point A to point B. But who knows. Maybe you are particularly indecisive. The Rhode Island metro is pretty much what you'd imagine a shady metro stop to be like. Nothing out of the ordinary: lots of drunks, vagrants, garbage, tumbleweaves, packs of roaming teenagers, loiterers and the like. One exceptionally scary part of the station is the walkway which crosses above traffic over Rhode Island Ave. I would highly suggest avoiding this after dark. It is a very long narrow walkway with a corner that you can not see around, and once you enter there is only two ways to exit: forward or back. Its something out of a horror movie where the character walks and the whole audience screams for them to turn around. Oh also, on average you can find 3 to 5 piles of puke and puddles of urine in the walkway so watch your step! There is a constant Police presence at the Rhode Island metro stop. No, not the Metro Police. I'm talking about the real DC Police. At first it seemed like a good thing ("Police! That's great I feel so safe."), but after seeing cops there nearly every morning and evening, I realized there was a reason for it. Another thing to point out are the packs of roaming teenagers which I previously mentioned. I once witnessed a group of them taking turns punching a fellow passenger. He was on the train in the late evening holding some drycleaning with one hand. The train was not crowded, so it was not like someone stepped on another's toe sparking a riot. These kids were doing it for fun and the guy had to stand there and take it. When the train arrived at Rhode Island station, the kids jumped off and ran out the gate. Too crazy. So yeah, the Rhode Island is creepy and dangerous, but use common sense and you'll be Ok. Avoid dark areas, stay near crowds, keep your purse/wallet in a safe location, carry pepper spray, check benches for strange fluids before you sit down, etc.

Perhaps I came at a different time of day, but my experience at this station was very pleasant. I found ample parking. Everything in the area was rather clean. There were some loiterers, but everyone was friendly. Love the free weekend parking. It was a perfect place to park and take the metro to downtown DC.

Colonial Parking have two secure garages right there with affordable rate. Lot#758 and it"s less than $150.00 per month.