Morgan Boulevard station
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Morgan Boulevard station is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in Summerfield, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with a Landover postal address.<ref name=SummerfieldCDPmap>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>"Morgan Boulevard." Washington Metro. Retrieved on September 7, 2018. "300 Garrett Morgan Blvd. Landover, MD 20785"</ref> The station was opened on December 18, 2004, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). It provides service for the Blue and Silver Lines.
Facilities and nearby landmarks
The station is located on Garrett Morgan Boulevard, one mile (1.6 km) from Northwest Stadium, home to the Washington Commanders. The stadium is about a 20 minute walk from the station.
The platform at this station is wider than others and the station features double the number of faregates of similar stations because of the large volumes of passengers using it before and after football games.<ref name="January 1, 2005"/> For commuters, there is a day care facility at the station.Template:Citation needed
History
In October 1996, the proposed routing for the extension of the Blue Line to Largo received a favorable environmental impact statement thus allowing for the project to move forward.<ref name="October 18, 1996">Template:Cite news</ref> The plan represented the first expansion to the original Template:Convert Metro network and would include both the then named Summerfield and Largo stations.<ref name="October 18, 1996"/> The station gained approval from Congress as part of the extension in February 2000 with the federal government contributing $259 million towards its construction.<ref name="February 4, 2000">Template:Cite news</ref>
Construction began in 2001, and by 2002 its name was changed to Morgan Boulevard as a result of the Prince George's County Board changing the name of the street from Summerfield Boulevard to Morgan Boulevard in memory of the African-American inventor Garrett Morgan.<ref name="August 17, 2002">Template:Cite news</ref> The station opened on December 18, 2004.<ref name="December 19, 2004">Template:Cite news</ref> Its opening coincided with the completion of Template:Convert<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> of rail east of the Addison Road station and the opening of Largo Town Center (now Template:Wmata) station.<ref name="December 19, 2004"/> The final cost of building it, its sister station and the rail extension was $456 million.<ref name="January 1, 2005">Template:Cite news</ref>
In December 2012, Morgan Boulevard was one of five stations added to the route of the Silver Line, which was originally supposed to end at the Stadium-Armory station, but was extended into Prince George's County, Maryland to the Largo station (the eastern terminus of the Blue Line) due to safety concerns about a pocket track just past Stadium-Armory.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Silver Line service at Morgan Boulevard began on July 26, 2014.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
From March 26, 2020 until June 28, 2020, this station was closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>