Merritt 7 (Metro-North station)
Merritt 7 | |||||||||||||||
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 Trackside view of station shelter | |||||||||||||||
| Location |
1 Glover Avenue Norwalk, CT, 06850-1309 | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°08′48″N 73°25′40″W / 41.1466°N 73.4278°WCoordinates: 41°08′48″N 73°25′40″W / 41.1466°N 73.4278°W | ||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link | ||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 88 | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 41 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1985[1] | ||||||||||||||
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The Merritt 7 Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the northern part of Norwalk, Connecticut via the Danbury Branch of the New Haven Line. Merritt 7 is named for a nearby business park based at the intersection of the Merritt Parkway and United States Route 7. The station is the only regular stop in the Metro-North system outside of the Waterbury Branch, the Pascack Valley Line, and the Port Jervis Line to have a low-level platform.
The Merritt-7 Office Complex built the station while separating the station from building entrances by a fence to make the complex transit adjacent but not transit-oriented.[2]
Merritt 7 is 45 miles (72 km) from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time from Grand Central is 74 minutes. The station opened on July 29, 1985 by Metro-North.[1]
The station has 88 parking spaces, all owned by the state.[3]
Platform and track configuration
| 1 | ■Danbury Branch | for South Norwalk or Grand Central |
| ■Danbury Branch | for Danbury |
This station has one seven-car-long low-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one track at this location.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles, Eleanor (July 28, 1985). "RAIL STATION FOR CORPORATE PARK". New York Times.
- ↑ Connecticut Department of Transportation January 2007 Visual Inspection Report
- ↑ "Task 2: Technical Memorandum parking Inventory and Utilization: Final Report" submitted by Urbitran Associates Inc. to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Table 1: New haven Line Parking Capacity and Utilization", page 6, July 2003
See also
- Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is the official state advocate for train commuters and brings station problems to the attention of officials.
External links
Media related to Merritt 7 (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Metro-North Railroad - Merritt 7
- Bureau of Public Transportation of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Condition Inspection for the Merritt 7 Station" report dated August 2002