Merritt 7 | |||||||||||
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Location | Glover Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°08′53″N73°25′40″W / 41.14803°N 73.42768°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Connecticut Department of Transportation [1] | ||||||||||
Operated by | Connecticut Department of Transportation [1] | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
Connections | Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | 88 spaces [2] | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | 41 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | July 29, 1985 [3] | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | September 2020–June 7, 2023 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2018 | 181 | ||||||||||
Rank | 100 of 124 [4] | ||||||||||
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Merritt 7 station is a commuter rail stop on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Norwalk, Connecticut. Merritt 7 is named after an adjacent business park based near the interchange of the Merritt Parkway and Route 7. The station has one high-level 6-car long side platform to the west of the single track. It is owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT). [1]
The Merritt 7 corporate park built the station while separating the station from building entrances by a fence to make the complex transit adjacent but not transit-oriented. [5] The station was opened on July 29, 1985, by Metro-North. At the time of its opening, it was the only privately built rail station in Connecticut. Construction of the station cost $750,000. [3]
The station was rebuilt with a 510-foot (160 m) six-car-long high-level platform on the west side of the tracks, slightly north of the former station. The new station has a full-length canopy and an accessible pedestrian overpass with elevators. [6] The state authorized funding for the project in 2017. [7] Bidding took place in April–June 2020; construction began that September. [8] [7] The new platform opened on June 7, 2023, but the footbridge over the tracks to the office park was delayed due to supply chain issues with glass panels. [9]
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