College Park–University of Maryland station is a Washington Metro station in Prince George's County, Maryland on the Green Line and Yellow Line. It also serves

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's Camden Line, though only select trains stop at the station. The station is located in College Park near the

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, with entrances at the intersection of Calvert Road and Bowdoin Avenue, and near the intersection of Paint Branch Parkway and River Road. It adjoins the headquarters of the American Physical Society and the

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(FDA). This station is planned to be served by the light rail Purple Line, under construction as of 2022.

History

Service at College Park began on December 11, 1993. An incident on October 4, 1997, saw a single-engine plane crash into the Metro right-of-way west of

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, injuring its six occupants and damaging the Metro fence and railing. In March 2012, the station became the first Metro station to feature a Bike & Ride facility. A mesh enclosure built into the adjacent parking garage, the facility can hold up to 120 bikes and has 24-hour access. The facility hopes to increase transportation to and from the station by bike. On June 25, 2017, Yellow Line trains stopped serving the station due to the elimination of Rush+, which is part of major changes to the Metrorail system. In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system. The platforms at the College Park–University of Maryland station would be rebuilt starting on May 29, 2021, through September 6, 2021. Yellow Line trains were re-extended from Mount Vernon Square and Fort Totten to Greenbelt at all service hours beginning May 25, 2019. From March 26, 2020, until June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The Purple Line, a light rail system, is under construction as of 2022 and is scheduled to open in 2026.

Station layout

The station's bus terminal is host to several Metrobus lines, the 14 and 17 lines of The Bus, and the G Route of the

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, as well as the university's complimentary Shuttle-UM running from the station to the Stamp Student Union on campus, connecting residents and passengers to Prince George's County, the university, and to

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The 104 bus shuttles students from the Metro to

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. A multi-level parking garage on the east side of the island-platformed station containing 1,345 parking spaces opened on June 25, 2005. The Washington Metro station is compliant with the

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, however the MARC station is not ADA compliant, which prevents some disabled people from transferring from the MARC train to the DC Metro. The MARC station lacks several accessible design elements, including raised platforms for boarding as well as

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along the edges of the platform. MARC trains, on the Camden Line, stop at this station on a set of tracks that are parallel to the Metro tracks. These tracks are accessible from the west side of the station and also via a pedestrian tunnel that passes under the Metro tracks. The station is unstaffed, but has an automated Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) that riders can use to buy tickets. Since the TVM was added, riders that choose to purchase tickets on board the train must pay an additional $5 fee.

References

External links

* The Schumin Web Transit Center
College Park-U of Md Station

Calvert Road entrance to Metro from Google Maps Street View

MARC Station from Google Maps Street View
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