Medical Center (Washington Metro)

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Medical Center
Station statistics
Address	8810 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814
Lines	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Bicycle facilities	88 racks, 38 lockers
Other information
Opened	August 25, 1984
Accessible
Code	A10
Owned by	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	1.861 million ▼ 0.5%
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station Grosvenor-Strathmore toward Shady Grove Red Line Bethesda toward Glenmont

Medical Center is a Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland on the Red Line.

The station serves the National Institutes of Health campus and the National Naval Medical Center, also known as Bethesda Naval Hospital, and is located at Rockville Pike and South Drive. Since there is little retail in the area and no commuter parking lot, this station is used almost exclusively by employees at those two institutions. Service began on August 25, 1984. It is relatively deep; prior to the opening of the Wheaton station, the Medical Center Metro station had the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere.

The new NIH Gateway Center is being built adjacent to this station's entrance. Construction is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2007.

[edit] Bus routes

Metrobus

• J1, J2, J3
• J7, J9

Ride On Bus

• 30
• 33
• 34
• 42
• 46
• 70

[edit] External links

• WMATA: Medical Center Station
• StationMasters Online: Medical Center Station
• The Schumin Web Transit Center: Medical Center Station
• NIH Gateway Center construction map: [1]
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Hybrid satellite image/aerial photo from WikiMapia