For the convenience and comfort of its MARC Train customers, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration is renovating and expanding the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport rail station. The $4.7 million renovation will include an expanded waiting area, new ticketing facilities, a concession area and restrooms. Construction is expected to begin on August 27 and will last 14 months.
“Our customers truly will appreciate the new features in the renovated MARC station at BWI,” said Andrea Farmer, MDOT MTA’s director of MARC Train. “We will provide not only a more aesthetically pleasing station, but a much more functional facility to best meet the needs of our riders.”
During construction, the station will continue to be open for both train and bus service. A temporary station at the north end of the site will continue to provide MARC and Amtrak customers with ticketing services, a waiting area and restrooms. Informational signage as well as new pedestrian and vehicular traffic pathways will be established to facilitate pedestrian access. A new handicap accessible ramp will be built near the temporary station for public access to the temporary station.
