Greenbelt (Washington Metro)

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Greenbelt
Station statistics
Address	5717 Greenbelt Metro Drive Greenbelt, MD 20740
Lines	Green Line
Connections	MARC: Camden Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Parking	3,399 spaces
Bicycle facilities	60 racks, 52 lockers
Other information
Opened	December 11, 1993
Accessible
Code	E10
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station College Park-U of Md toward Branch Avenue Green Line Terminus Preceding station   MARC   Following station College Park-U of Md toward Washington Camden Line Muirkirk toward Camden Yards

Greenbelt station mezzanine

Greenbelt is a Washington Metro station in Prince George's County, Maryland on the Green Line. It is the northeastern end of the Green Line.

The station is located in Greenbelt (near Berwyn Heights, Beltsville, and the northern part of College Park), off of Cherrywood Lane near the Capital Beltway. With a parking lot of over 3,300 spaces,^[1] and with quick access to and from the Beltway, it is an ideal commuter station for both locals and people coming from elsewhere -- such as the Beltway or from Baltimore. An express Metrobus service, the B30 route, is also available to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), allowing a connection to Baltimore transit services. Service began on December 11, 1993. There are tentative plans to extend the Green Line from Greenbelt northward toward Laurel, Fort Meade, and possibly BWI Airport

MARC trains, on the Camden line, stop at Greenbelt on a set of tracks that are parallel to the Metro tracks. The stop has two low-level platforms and is unstaffed.

On the way to Greenbelt station, trains pass Lake Artemesia, which was created as part of the construction of the College Park-U of Md and Greenbelt stations. Sand and gravel excavated from what is now Lake Artemesia were used to construct the track bed and parking facilities at these stations.

[edit] Bus routes

Metrobus

• 81
• 87
• 89, 89M
• B30 (to BWI Airport)
• C2
• C7, C9
• R12
• R3
• T16, T17

Laurel Connect-A-Ride

• H

THE BUS

• 11
• 15
• 16

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• WMATA: Greenbelt Station
• StationMasters Online: Greenbelt Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Greenbelt Station
• [1] MTA website

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