Merritt 7 (Metro-North station)
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Merritt 7
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Trackside view of station shelter
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| Location | 1 Glover Avenue Norwalk, CT, 06850-1309 |
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| Platforms | 1 low 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 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 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 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 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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
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