NYMTA Metro-North Railroad to open Fairfield Station December 5

Written by jrood

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad will begin train service to the newly-built Fairfield Metro Station on Monday, December 5. Located midway between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations, Fairfield Metro should encourage the use of mass transit by providing 1,400 parking spaces. The station was built by the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Town of Fairfield. CTDOT owns the entire station facility. The station and parking lot will be operated and maintained by Fusco Management Company for CTDOT. Metro-North provides train service in Connecticut under contract to CTDOT. Fairfield Metro Station is fully ADA accessible with elevators on each platform. In addition, the station has two, high-level platforms with full-length canopies that can accommodate 12 rail cars each. Other station amenities include ticket vending machines, benches, shelters and a fully-enclosed pedestrian overpass for easy passage between platforms. Recycling centers also are available on the platforms. The New Haven Line, the busiest single rail line in the United States, carried 37.3 million people in 2010, a 2.8 percent increase over the previous year. Fairfield Metro is the first new station on the New Haven Line since State Street Station opened in New Haven in 2002. Prior to that, the last station to open was Merritt 7 on the Danbury Branch in 1985.

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