The Metro board didn’t spend their entire day on the fare hike issue Thursday. They also voted to spend $450,000 to develop a proposal to add an eastern entrance to the Rosslyn station.

Metro says the new entrance would include three new high-speed elevators, an underground station mezzanine and passageway connection, and an emergency stairway. Since the preliminary plans are still to come, the precise location of the entrance is still unknown, especially considering how many new developments are currently planned or under construction in the immediate area.

Arlington County is paying for the proposal development process out of funds leftover from the Ballston station improvement project from 2006, which added elevators and develped plans to open a new entrance to that station as well.

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