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Ok Here we go! WMATA Metro Opened the Glenmont Station today Saturday
07 25 1998. this is the 76th station to open. this brings the route
miles up to 95. WMATA estamates that 7000 passengers are expected to
be using the station on the average weekday in 6 months.

This station is very typical of the newer design that WMATA uses on
its younger cut and cover poured in place concrete subway stations.
The train hall is the same as two of the three new stations north of
Gallery Place-Chinatown, Mount Vernon Square and Shaw Howard U.
These three stations use the 6 coffer design as apposed to the 22
coffer design used on stations WMATA built in from 1960s to the mid
1980s.

The station layout is an island platform station with a single
mezzanine at mid platform. It has surface entrances on both east and
west sides of Georgia Ave MD SR 97. It also has 2 elevators from the
surface to the mezzanine again on both east and west sides of Georgia
Ave. The station is not under Georgia Ave proper as most station in
WMATA are. The station is under the properties that fronts Georgia Ave
on the west side of the street. 

Now let look at access. The station has 2 kiss and ride drop offs
lots one on each side of Georgia Ave, these lots are also used for
mid day short term off peek parking using parking meters. It has 4
on street bus boarding areas that are at curb side 2 each north and
south bound on Georgia Ave. It also has an off street bus terminal
with 6 boarding bays. It also has a 1800 space multi level parking
structure. The Station in served by 2 transit agencies WMATAs own
metrobus and Montgomary County RIDE ON. According to the Montgomary
County RIDE ON map dated Sunday 07 26 1998 there are 17 bus routes
serving the Glenmont station. 10 of the routes are served by RIDE ON
all but 1 of these routes uses Glenmont Station as terminal. These
routes are 10, 26, 31, 33, 39, 40, 41, 49, 51, and 53. The 10 is the
route that does not use Glenmont Station as a terminal. Metrobus has
6 bus routes serving Glenmont Station. These routes are C8, Y7, Y9,
Z1, and Z4. 3 of these routes do not use Glenmont Station as a
terminal Y7, Y8, and Y9. 

You can check the web sites of RIDE ON for more details on there
routes at;
http://www.dpwt.com/TransSvcDiv/TransSvcDiv.html

You can check the web sites of WMATA metrobus for more details on
there routes at;
http://www.wmata.com/1_metro/5_scheds/mdndx.htm

Now my take on the station. The station is pretty typical of the
stations on WMATA. There are a couple of thing that stand out
about this station, in my view. This is the only station that I know
of that has 2 elevators on opposite sides of a street serving one
mezzanine from the surface. The north end of the station has 
knockouts in the tunnels to extend the line further out Georgia Ave.
There are tunnels that now lead to a yard about 1/4 miles north of
the station. Exiting the parking structure can be fun for the first
time user. You may enter the parking structure right off Georgia Ave
on to the 2nd level, this entrance is only accessible from north
bound Georgia Ave, however to exit you must use one of the two
exits to Glenallen Ave on the 1st or 2nd levels, or use the Layhill
Rd exit on the 3rd level. You may also enter the parking structure
from Glenallen Ave to the 1st level (this is the entrance you would
use from south bound Georgia Ave, turn left on to Glenallen Ave to
entrance) or use Layhill Rd MD SR 182 entrance to the 3rd level (this
exit will get you to south bound Georgia Ave, there is no left turn on
to Layhill Rd from this exit, road divided with island must use one of
the Glenallen exits to get to north bound Layhill Rd,). You really
need a map to see the all of the entrances and exits to better under
stand the layout. The signage in the parking structure directing you
to the exits IMO could be a little better.


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