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Forest Glen is a
/ref> Its opening coincided with the completion of of rail north of the
The original plan was to build the station above ground, with a parking lot that would have required demolishing about fifteen homes.Article preview
/ref> After community opposition to the above-ground station, Montgomery County approved a modified plan for an underground station. The originally planned location for the parking lot and bus stops was on the east side of Georgia Avenue, between Sherwood Road and Tilton Drive, near Woodland Drive. Tilton Drive would have been closed between Georgia Avenue and Woodland Drive in order to reduce traffic through the nearby residential neighborhood. Building the parking lot and bus stops there would have required the demolition of one business and several homes. Response to plans for the underground station were mixed, with some residents and local businesses looking forward to the convenience of a nearby station and other residents concerned about potential increases in traffic in the area. Metro contended that deleting the station from the plans altogether would have overloaded both Wheaton and Silver Spring metro stations. The Montgomery County council approved the station in January 1976, three months after it had approved the further-away Wheaton station. On August 13th, 1991, all six elevators broke down due to a malfunctioning fire sensor, blocking access to and from the station for several hours.
/ref> Because of the lack of escalators, Forest Glen is the only station equipped with smoke doors to protect customers during a train fire and evacuation. In addition, a 20-story staircase exists for emergency use. South of this station, trains emerge from the tunnel. This station, along with Wheaton station farther north, has separate tunnels and platforms for each direction, instead of the large, vaulted common room seen at most other underground stations in the Metro system; this design, which is similar to many of the
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Forest Glen Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
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side platform
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ed Washington Metro station in Forest Glen, Maryland
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. The station was opened on September 22, 1990, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
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(WMATA).Article preview/ref> Its opening coincided with the completion of of rail north of the
Silver Spring station
Silver Spring is a Washington Metro and MARC Train station in Montgomery County, Maryland on the Red Line and Brunswick Line. On the Metro, Silver Spring is the first station in Maryland of the eastern end of the Red Line, and is the second- ...
and the opening of Wheaton station. Providing service for the Red Line, the station is located at Georgia Avenue
Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland. Within the District of Columbia and a short distance in Silver Spring, Maryland, Georgia Avenue is also U.S. Route 29. Both Howard Unive ...
(Maryland Route 97
Maryland Route 97 (MD 97) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The route runs from U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, north to the Pennsylvania border in Carroll County, where the r ...
) and Forest Glen Road. The station is the deepest in the system at deep, so high-speed elevators, rather than escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizo ...
s, are used for access to the surface.
History
The original plan was to build the station above ground, with a parking lot that would have required demolishing about fifteen homes.Article preview/ref> After community opposition to the above-ground station, Montgomery County approved a modified plan for an underground station. The originally planned location for the parking lot and bus stops was on the east side of Georgia Avenue, between Sherwood Road and Tilton Drive, near Woodland Drive. Tilton Drive would have been closed between Georgia Avenue and Woodland Drive in order to reduce traffic through the nearby residential neighborhood. Building the parking lot and bus stops there would have required the demolition of one business and several homes. Response to plans for the underground station were mixed, with some residents and local businesses looking forward to the convenience of a nearby station and other residents concerned about potential increases in traffic in the area. Metro contended that deleting the station from the plans altogether would have overloaded both Wheaton and Silver Spring metro stations. The Montgomery County council approved the station in January 1976, three months after it had approved the further-away Wheaton station. On August 13th, 1991, all six elevators broke down due to a malfunctioning fire sensor, blocking access to and from the station for several hours.
Layout
Building the tunnels through soft rock close to the surface would have been either very costly or impossible, so engineers decided to dig the tunnels through harder, more solid rock deeper in the ground. Due to tracks resting at a depth of , Forest Glen is the only station in the system without direct surface access by way of escalators. Instead, a bank of six high-speed elevators serve the station, with each elevator able to travel at a rate of between the underground station and the surface./ref> Because of the lack of escalators, Forest Glen is the only station equipped with smoke doors to protect customers during a train fire and evacuation. In addition, a 20-story staircase exists for emergency use. South of this station, trains emerge from the tunnel. This station, along with Wheaton station farther north, has separate tunnels and platforms for each direction, instead of the large, vaulted common room seen at most other underground stations in the Metro system; this design, which is similar to many of the
London Underground
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The ...
's tube stations, was used to save money due to the station's depth.Article preview/ref>
References
External links
Forest Glen Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
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