Morgan Boulevard station

Morgan Boulevard is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in Summerfield census-designated place, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with a Landover postal address.[2][3] The station was opened on December 18, 2004, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). It provides service for the Blue and Silver Lines.

Morgan Boulevard
rapid transit station
Location300 Garrett Morgan Boulevard, Landover, Maryland
Owned byWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections TheBus: 22, 24, 26
Construction
Structure typeOpen-cut
Parking635 spaces
Bicycle facilities9 racks, 40 lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeG04
History
OpenedDecember 18, 2004 (December 18, 2004)
Previous namesSummerfield (while under construction)
Traffic
Passengers (2017)2,881 daily [1]  63.97%
Services
Preceding station Washington Metro Following station
Addison Road
toward Franconia–Springfield
 Blue Line Largo Town Center
Terminus
Addison Road
toward Wiehle–Reston East
 Silver Line

Since March 26, 2020, this station has been closed until further notice due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.[4][5] The station will reopen beginning on June 28, 2020.[6]

Facilities and nearby landmarks

The station is located on Garrett Morgan Boulevard, one mile from FedExField, home to the Washington Redskins. The stadium is about a 19-20 minute walk from the station.

This is one of the few stations not served by Metrobus. The Prince George's County bus system, called simply TheBus, serves this station. The platform at this station is wider than others and the station features double the number of faregates of similar stations because of the large volumes of passengers using it before and after football games.[7] For commuters, there is a day care facility at the station.

History

In October 1996, the proposed routing for the extension of the Blue Line to Largo received a favorable environmental impact statement thus allowing for the project to move forward.[8] The plan represented the first expansion to the original 103-mile (166 km) Metro network and would include both the then named Summerfield and Largo stations.[8] The station gained approval from Congress as part of the extension in February 2000 with the federal government contributing $259 million towards its construction.[9]

Construction began in 2001, and by 2002 its name was changed to Morgan Boulevard as a result of the Prince George's County Board changing the name of the street from Summerfield Boulevard to Morgan Boulevard in memory of the African-American inventor Garrett Morgan.[10] The station opened on December 18, 2004.[11] Its opening coincided with the completion of 3.2 miles (5.1 km)[12] of rail east of the Addison Road station and the opening of the Largo Town Center station.[11] The final cost of building it, its sister station and the rail extension was $456 million.[7]

In December 2012, Morgan Boulevard was one of five stations added to the route of the Silver Line, which was originally supposed to end at the Stadium-Armory station, but was extended into Prince George's County, Maryland to the Largo Town Center station (the eastern terminus of the Blue Line) due to safety concerns about a pocket track just past Stadium-Armory.[13] Silver Line service at Morgan Boulevard began on July 26, 2014.[14]

Station layout
G Street level Exit/entrance, buses, parking
P
Platform level		 Westbound ← toward Franconia–Springfield (Addison Road)
← toward Wiehle–Reston East (Addison Road)
Island platform
Eastbound →   toward Largo Town Center (Terminus) →

References
  1. "Metrorail Average Weekday Passenger Boardings" (PDF). WMATA. May 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  2. "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Summerfield CDP, MD" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  3. "Morgan Boulevard." Washington Metro. Retrieved on September 7, 2018. "300 Garrett Morgan Blvd. Landover, MD 20785"
  4. "Special Covid-19 System Map" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  5. "Metrorail stations closed due to COVID-19 pandemic". Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. March 23, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  6. "Metro to reopen 15 stations, reallocate bus service to address crowding, starting Sunday | WMATA". www.wmata.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  7. Partlow, Joshua (January 1, 2005). "Newest stations to ease game-day crush; Redskins fans await rail, trail to FedEx". The Washington Post. p. B3.
  8. Fehr, Stephen C. (October 18, 1996). "Plan to extend P.G. Metro line moves forward; Environmental study allows Largo stops". The Washington Post. p. C3.
  9. Layton, Lyndsey (February 4, 2000). "Federal funds promised for new Metrorail stops". The Washington Post. p. A1.
  10. Meyer, Eugene L. (August 17, 2002). "Base living with cheers, a few fears". The Washington Post. p. J1.
  11. Dana, Rebecca (December 19, 2004). "Metro, Prince George's extend their reach; Two new Blue Line stations open, bringing passengers and economic potential". The Washington Post. p. C2.
  12. "Sequence of Metrorail openings" (PDF). Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. 2017. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2018. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  13. Aratani, Lori (December 5, 2012). "Metro details Silver Line service changes". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  14. Halsey, Ashley (July 26, 2014). "All aboard! Metro's new Silver Line rolls down the tracks for the first time". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 8, 2016.

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