Medical Center (Washington Metro)

Infobox Station
name = Medical Center

logo_size = 50px

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address = 8810 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814
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platform =1 island platform
tracks = 2
parking =
bicycle = 88 racks, 38 lockers
passengers = 1.861 million
pass_year = 2006
pass_percent = -.5
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opened = August 25, 1984
rebuilt =
ADA = Yes
code = A10
owned = Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
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Medical Center is a Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland on the Red Line.

The station serves the National Institutes of Health campus and the National Naval Medical Center, also known as Bethesda Naval Hospital, and is located at Rockville Pike and South Drive. Since there is little retail in the area and no commuter parking lot, this station is used almost exclusively by employees at those two institutions. Service began on August 25, 1984. It is relatively deep; prior to the opening of the Wheaton station, the Medical Center Metro station had the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere.

The new NIH Gateway Center is being built adjacent to this station's entrance. Construction is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2007.

Bus routes

Metrobus
* J1, J2, J3
* J7, J9Ride On Bus
* 30
* 33
* 34
* 42
* 46
* 70

External links

* WMATA: [http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/Stations/station.cfm?station=13 Medical Center Station]
* StationMasters Online: [http://www.stationmasters.com/System_Map/MEDICALC/medicalc.html Medical Center Station]
* The Schumin Web Transit Center: [http://transit.schuminweb.com/rail/washington/red-line.asp?station=A10 Medical Center Station]
* NIH Gateway Center construction
http://dtts.ors.od.nih.gov/gateway_map.htm]