Reisterstown Plaza - (Baltimore Metro SubwayLink)

Reisterstown Plaza was the northwest terminus of the original 7.6 mile opening day segment of the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink. The station opened on November 21, 1983. The station is an elevated station located between Wabash Avenue and the Hanover subdivision of CSX railway. The stop consist of an island platform with a canopy covering its midsection. This canopy covers the middle-half of the platform and contains a skylight over the central platform area, a flat roof wraps around the skylight, all supports for the canopy are along the outside of the tracks, with no central supports. The platforms have a few little silver fully enclosed shelters for waiting passengers.

To leave the platform an elevator at the northern end of the canopy, followed by a staircase and then two separate escalators lead to a mezzanine level just beneath the platform. This mezzanine level contains the station’s fare control area inside a station house with automatic doors at each end at its southern end (opposite the elevator). From the station house and street elevator and a pair of escalators at the southern end lead down to a pedestrian island directly beneath the tracks. The south side of this island contains a bus loop, although the island is in the wrong direction, on the left side of buses so passengers must cross into the street to board the one connecting bus route. Only the northbound Route 82 bus stops here by the station entrance. The opposite side of this island is the station's ADA parking spaces.

The station's main parking lot is accessible via a footbridge at mezzanine level. This footbridge has a unique roof structure that's white and looks like a sail. It is enclosed with glass walls. This leads across Wabash Avenue and ends with just two escalators (there should also be an elevator in my opinion) and ends at a little plaza at the edge of the station's main parking lot with a total of 700 spaces including in a separate north parking lot. A bus loop wraps around this parking lot with a stop for southbound Route 82 bus stop. These parking lots extend west of the station to Vertis Park Drive.

Just south of the station (and very much in walking distance of it with sidewalk connections, although the lack of elevator down to the parking lots from the footbridge across Wabash Avenue makes accessibility hard) is a large Social Security Office Building. This is the closest of a small cluster of suburban office parks, plus the MTA Northwest Division Bus garage all south of the station.
Photos 1-22 taken on August 31, 2024;

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