West Haven (Metro-North Station)

West Haven (Metro-North Station)

West Haven is a under construction commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in West Haven, Connecticut. The station is being built on Sawmill Road between Hood Terrace and Railroad Avenue, in the Elm Street-Wagner Place neighborhood. West Haven will have a parking capacity of 660 spaces in on-site lots, with the possibility of 300-400 more in a parking garage in a refurbished industrial building north of the station if warranted by future demand. The station will be fully handicapped accessible.

After a decade of studies, planning, and controversy over the station site, ground was broken for the station on November 10, 2010. The $80 million project includes the station - with two 12-car platforms, a glass station building, and an overhead pedestrian bridge - as well as the restoration of the formerly abandoned fourth mainline track through the station. It will be only the second new station on the line in a century, after Fairfield Metro in 2011. West Haven station is currently planned to open on June 1, 2013.