Metro Station -- Hyattsville:
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- METHY_151101_09.JPG: Dawn and Dusk
Heidi Lippman, Artist
Ben Van Dusen, Architect
Franz Mayer of Munich, Inc., Mosaic Studio, Germany & Italy
Dawn and Dusk was commissioned by Prince George's County and funded by the Maryland Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Designed in the United States, the mosaics were assembled piece by piece in Munich, Germany and Spilimbergo, Italy, and installed at the New Carrollton Metro Station Parking Facility by Italian master craftsmen.
(c) January, 1999
- METHY_151101_13.JPG: Dawn and Dusk
Heidi Lippman, Artist
Ben Van Dusen, Architect
Franz Mayer of Munich, Inc., Mosaic Studio, Germany & Italy
Dawn and Dusk was commissioned by Prince George's County and funded by the Maryland Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Designed in the United States, the mosaics were assembled piece by piece in Munich, Germany and Spilimbergo, Italy, and installed at the New Carrollton Metro Station Parking Facility by Italian master craftsmen.
(c) January, 1999
- Wikipedia Description: Hyattsville Crossing station
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hyattsville Crossing station is a Washington Metro station in Hyattsville, Maryland, on the Green Line. It opened on December 11, 1993, as Prince George's Plaza, referencing the nearby Prince George's Plaza, now known as The Mall at Prince Georges. The station has a unique layout in that it is an open-cut side platformed station with a parking garage directly over the tracks.
History
The station is located in a commercial area of Hyattsville near The Mall at Prince Georges, which, before receiving its second name in November 2004, was called Prince George's Plaza, at East-West Highway (Maryland Route 410) and Belcrest Road. Service began on December 11, 1993.
Originally, only Green Line trains served the station and ran between Fort Totten and Greenbelt. Eventually, this segment of the Green Line was connected with the rest of the Green Line in September 1999.
Rush hour Yellow Line trains began operating at this station on June 12, 2012, operating between Greenbelt and Franconia–Springfield or Huntington. However, this service was discontinued on June 25, 2017, because of budget cuts.
In May 2018, Metro announced an extensive renovation of platforms at twenty stations across the system. The platforms at the Greenbelt station would be rebuilt starting on May 29, 2021, through September 6, 2021.
In November 2020, WMATA approved a request from Prince George's County to change the name of the former Prince George's Plaza station to Hyattsville Crossing, despite survey results noting people prefer the name Prince George's Plaza due to the station being located in Prince George's county and in relation to the Mall at Prince Georges. The new name took effect on September 11, 2022.
Since May 7, 2023, the northeastern terminus of the Yellow Line was truncated from Greenbelt to Mount Vernon Square, following its reopening after a nearly eight-month-long major rehabilitation project on its bridge over the Potomac River and its tunnel leading into L'Enfant Plaza. Thus, it no longer services this station.
From July 22 to September 4, 2023, this station will be closed to improve rail system technologies, closing stations north of Fort Totten.
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