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plans will also need to be taken into account inasmuch as the street grid created may present
other “unofficial” locations for Kiss & Ride activity to take place, such as street curbsides free of
parked cars during peak hours.
Park & Ride
Parking at Naylor Road Station is constrained. The station’s single Park & Ride surface lot
contains 368 daily parking spaces, which represents only five percent of all available parking
on the southern Green Line (Southern Avenue Station, Naylor Road Station, Suitland Station,
and Branch Avenue Station). Daily parking will very likely remain constrained into the future
given the expected redevelopment of the station area into a transit-oriented regional center that
emphasizes pedestrian and bicycle access.
This study utilized the MWCOG travel demand model to estimate the magnitude of 2040
parking demand by assuming Naylor Road Station parking is unconstrained. Such an analysis
helps Metro understand the imbalance between parking supply and demand. The results of
this analysis showed that, in an unconstrained parking scenario, daily parking demand would
be reduced at both Suitland Station and Branch Avenue Station and increased for Naylor Road
Station, most likely because Naylor
Table 20: Unconstrained Parking Demand at Naylor Road Station
2040 Peak Period Park & Ride
Demand*
Constrained Unconstrained
Station
Parking
Scenario
Parking
Scenario
Total
Difference
Percent
Difference
Naylor Road 646 2,325 +1,679 +260%
Suitland 3,462 2,862 -600 -17%
Branch Avenue 5,035 4,534 -501 -10%
Source: MWCOG travel demand model
* These numbers represent the number of desired parking trips in 2040, not the number of
parking spaces. The number of desired trips can be higher than the number of spaces due to
turnover.
Road Station is closer to the District
and would thus save time for daily
commuters. The analysis found that
2040 Park & Ride trips to Naylor Road
Station would increase by 260 percent
if parking were unconstrained, as
shown in Table 20. If trying to meet
this demand, Metro would need a Park
& Ride facility of approximately 2,325
daily spaces, assuming an average
occupancy rate is 1.04 people per
vehicle.
Significantly increasing the amount of Park & Ride spaces at Naylor Road Station to such a
degree, however, does not conform to Metro’s, Prince George’s County’s, or Maryland’s vision
for the station area. The vision for a redeveloped Naylor Road Station emphasizes alternative
modes of access, such as walking, cycling, and bus services, and the high capital cost of
providing enough parking to meet demand throughout the Metrorail system has similarly
prompted Metro to focus on promoting these modes of access, which have lower capital costs.
Even the constrained scenario shows parking demand well over the existing parking capacity
of Naylor Road Station, likely due to reuse of spaces and overflow parking inherent in current
parking utilization data.
Station Capacity & Emergency Egress
Infrastructure requirements were evaluated with a station capacity analysis based on 2012 and
estimated 2040 ridership levels and requirements set by Metro and the Transit Capacity and
Quality of Service Manual. This analysis established the minimum required vertical (e.g. elevators
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