Shot Tower station explained

Style:MTA Maryland
Style2:Metro Subway
Shot Tower
Type:Metro SubwayLink station
Address:Baltimore and South President Streets
Baltimore, Maryland
Other:MTA Maryland Buses
Platform:1
Tracks:2
Parking:Street
Bicycle:Bike Share Stop #7 (12 docks)
Passengers:1,712 daily[1]
Pass Year:2017
Opened:May 1995
Former:Shot Tower/Market Place (1995–2017)
Accessible:Yes
Owned:Maryland Transit Administration
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-metro
Zoom:15

Shot Tower station (formerly Shot Tower/Market Place station) is an underground Metro SubwayLink station in Baltimore, Maryland. It is in the central part of the city, in close proximity to many well-known landmarks, including the Shot Tower for which it is named, Port Discovery, Power Plant Live!, the Harbor campus of Baltimore City Community College, the National Aquarium, the Flag House, and Little Italy. The station has two street-level entrances, but unlike other Baltimore Metro stations that do, both these entrances share a common gate inside the station. The Shot Tower station is one of two stops in the third phase of the Baltimore Metro, having opened in 1995. Originally named Shot Tower/Market Place to showcase the proximity to the Market Place development, MTA Maryland dropped Market Place from its title with the 2017 rebranding of BaltimoreLink.

Four display cases of artifacts found when digging during the construction of the station may be seen on the west side of the upper level of the station, on the unpaid side of the faregates.

Media

In Season 2, Episode 1 of House of Cards, U.S. Rep. Frank Underwood (D-S.C.) meets with reporter Zoe Barnes at the fictitious Cathedral Heights Metro station. The actual scene was filmed at Shot Tower station in Baltimore.

Gallery

File:Shot Tower Baltimore Metro Station.jpg|The east entrance to the Shot Tower Metro SubwayLink station.File:Shot Tower Baltimore Metro Station 2017.jpg|The west entrance to the Shot Tower Metro SubwayLink station.

Maryland MTA Bus Connections

External links

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Notes and References

  1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/MSCP_MetroSubwayLink.pdf