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    Wheaton Metro Station

    3.8 (24 reviews)
    Open 7:00 am - 3:00 AM (Next day)

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    Steve A.

    Wheaton has a Metro station. It can be annoying to get into. Very deep and a long escalator which sucks. Lots of shopping around. This is across the street from the big mall. Fairly clean. It serves the Red Line. This station is so deep that the escalators take several minutes. Annoying but it can be fun. The look from the top can freak you out. Outside there's a large area for busses. There's also a large parking garage that has decent prices. It has a lot of places to eat and shop around. It's across the street from the Wheaton Mall. This has mostly chain restaurants but there's good stuff too.

    Elevators on Reedie Drive near Ride On Bus 9 Kiss and Ride and Safeway. Street level down to Mezzanine level and East Entrance.
    Michael L.

    Wheaton continues to evolve around the busy Metro station near the eastern top of the Red Line. I find this station difficult to navigate despite its famous escalator. The huge parking building and distant Wheaton Mall add to the confusion. To exit the station from fare turnstiles, watch the signage carefully. Go right for the East Entrance. This is also designated as the Kiss and Ride Lot which opens on Reedie Drive near the Safeway. You will have to climb the spiral staircase or endure the grimy elevator from the mezzanine to street level. For West Entrance, go left from the fare turnstiles to Wheaton Bus Bays A-E and Viers Mill Rd pedestrian overpass to Wheaton Mall.

    starting my descending journey to the subway tubes.
    Chad P.

    Literally just came here for the longest escalator in the western hemisphere! Getting off the train, station seemed well-lit and clean. An easy walk to the middle tube that will take you to the escalators. There are three of them, with two running in the same direction depending on the time of day. Standing on it, it will take almost 3 minutes to get from one end to the other. It's quite a journey! Getting to the top after going up, you wonder how the whole thing doesn't just break and send you barreling down. Anyway, just for the transportation geek in me, riding this was fun and glad I did the experience.

    Rumit P.

    I've never seen a station platform before that is bisected by an escalator, but this one is. The walk time from the garage to the platform is about 3-4 minutes because after parking on level 3 (the skywalk connecting to Metro is on level 3), crossing the skywalk, going down two flights, walking across to the entrance, through the long tunnel, and then down a very, very long escalator takes quite some time. The parking garage is a tricky to find. One entrance is off Viers Mill Road, as if you were going toward the mall. There are signs but can still be difficult to locate the garage entrance at first. There seems to be a plethora of spots here versus Glenmont, the terminus of Red Line, and daily parking is $4.35 here ($5.05 at Glenmont). The neighborhood has shaped up since I've lived in the area and improving, which is nice. All kinds of young and established professionals. Diverse!

    Danny V.

    It's never a good sign when the "wall art" in the station is an awareness promotion for prevention of stolen phones and electronics. A 2007 report released by the WMATA ranked the Wheaton Metro station 14 of 86 stations system-wide in reported ''Part 1" criminal offenses that same year. With that said, this is not 2007 and I have had FEW incidents in or right outside the station. The station needs more security presence given the "longest escalator in the western-hemisphere". Camera-shmera means little when stuff happens down that far. This station does seem a little sketchy when the crowd is sparse. My point: stay aware no matter what station you are at. AT&T does not have cellphone reception at this metro station and a security guard would be helpful.

    Jynnah R.

    The Wheaton metro is steps away from the Westfield mall so it is very convenient. It also has a bus depot to catch any of the Maryland area buses. It's in the heart of downtown Wheaton so it is a pretty accessible station. They just installed a bike station as well. Be advised! Not all trains go to Wheaton. Some trains end service at Silver Springs! On the weekdays during heavy traffic hours a train will come every 6-8 minutes. But on the weekends a train might come every 15-25 minutes (seriously it's ridiculous and sometimes longer)! This underground station (great for the winter) has the longest elevator out of all the metro stations. My daily workout includes going down the escalator in the morning and trying to get up it in the evening without stopping.

    Damn that's a long escalator ride
    Johnny M.

    Long ass escalator ride, ghetto neighborhood, parking garage. Not much else to say.

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    Be very careful on this escalator, you are 1 slight trip from falling down 367 steps of unapologetic sharp metal teeth.

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