Stamford (Metro-North station)

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Stamford
Address Washington Boulevard and South State Street
Stamford, CT 06902
Routes Acela Express - Regional - Vermonter
Other service MTA Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, Shore Line East
Code STM
Owned by


The Stamford Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Stamford, Connecticut via the New Haven Line. Some Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains also stop at Stamford. It is 33 miles from Grand Central Terminal. Just north of the station is the split for the New Canaan Branch. A few Shore Line East trains terminate at Stamford during the morning rush hour, and originate there in the evening.

Continental Airlines codeshares with Amtrak to provide service out of Stamford station to the train station at Continental's Northeast hub, Newark Liberty International Airport. As such, the train station has the IATA Airport Code (as an IATA-indexed train station) ZTF.

As of August 2006, weekday commuter ridership for Metro-North was 7,147 and there were 2,215 parking spaces. [1]

In 2001, on the other hand, there was an average of 6,100 weekday inbound boardings---2,942 during peak times and 3,158 during off-peak times. [2]

Stamford is the busiest New Haven Line station outside of New York City.

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[edit] Amtrak annual ridership

Stamford is now the second-busiest Amtrak station in Connecticut, after New Haven's Union Station.

[edit] Layout

The main station concourse straddles the tracks of the Northeast Corridor, and contains a passenger waiting area, a newsstand, and a Dunkin' Donuts. Stairs and escalators lead down to platform level. Stamford has four high-level platforms, which give access to four tracks. A fifth track lies between the express tracks, so that Amtrak and peak-hour Metro-North trains not stopping there may bypass the station at full speed safely. Across the street from the station, and connected to the concourse by two pedestrian bridges, is a large parking garage. There is also a local bus terminal near the train station.

[edit] Criticism

In 1987, the New York Times published a review of the then-new Stamford Transporataion Center by architecture critic Paul Goldberger. The station was criticized for "a harshness almost unequaled in contemporary architecture" as well as for cost overruns and many functional failings, including the lack of shelter for the track platforms[1].

The route from the cross-tracks waiting room to the platform is so long and indirect that you'll miss your train if you wait indoors until its arrival is announced.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Paul Goldberger, "A Hard-Edged Station for Stamford", New York Times, December 7, 1987

[edit] External links

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