Two years after D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray pledged to build a $1.8 million park memorializing the victims of the 2009 Metro Red Line crash, the city does not have a design and is still seeking the National Park Service’s approval to create the park on the south side of the New Hampshire Avenue bridge, the .
Gray pledged in 2011 to build a park near the site of the crash in which nine people died and dozens more were injured outside the Fort Totten Metro station.