Wiehle-Reston East Metro Station

Probably one of the best stations in the WMATA system, but it is Helltro after all and thus there are downsides. First, what’s good: relatively clean (no literal feces like Glenmont), nice shops opening up, Founding Farmers restaurant opening soon, Wed farmers market and plenty of parking.
Now the bad:
1. Lots of parking, but its was engineered all wrong. So bad WaPo did an article «Navigating Silver Line garage can be confusing.» If you haven’t been there before I recommend going on a weekend to recon the place first. Otherwise it will be very high stress trying to navigate during the commuting rush. Also be prepared for it to take awhile to get out of there. Usually at least 5 minutes, but I’ve been stuck there for as long as 15 – 20 to get on to the Dulles Toll Road.
2. Not enough exit gates. Apparently Helltro didn’t learn anything from their other «end of line» locations, which always get more riders. So there can be back ups getting out of the station on foot.
3. Lack of info. The WMATA electronic boards there rarely give you accurate up to date information on when the next train is going to be coming or going.

Picking up and dropping off at the kiss and ride at Whiele has got to be the most frustrating experience — traffic backed up and one way corners that cause all sorts of problems. Spent an hour stuck inside — unbelieveably poor design.

Great way to get to DC! Reston is such a cute city, and it is great that it is connected by the metro to DC.

The Kiss and Ride is the result of the worst urban planning in the history of the world. Fuck this metro station.

This station is at the end of the silver line. The cards are $ 2 for those who don’t already have one. Fare wasn’t too expensive to ride into the D.C. Area… Anywhere from $ 3-​$ 7 one-​way or round trip. Trains come in what seemed like every 15 minutes. There are employees at the fare station machines if you need help trying to figure out how to use them, where to go and how much to add. I like the tap system — all seemed to go by smoothly. The interior of the trains seemed kind of old and dirty however… And there were sometimes trash that had been left in the seats from previous riders. I kind of wish there was seating on the platform while you were waiting for your train.
Note: it’s about a 50 minute ride from this stop into D.C. (Federal Triangle).

Convenient to commute to IAD and then catch a 10 minute shuttle bus but it does cost $ 4.60 one-​way to/​from DC. Still cheaper than a taxi so I won’t complain.

this station is new and beautiful. the parking is new and underground,…but a bit confusing with the floors and where and where not to park. Follow a regular or you will get lost! For this, i prefer Vienna, where you just roll into any of the garages, park anywhere and run in. You need a logistics certification for the parking situation here. –1
There are also little stores and shops as you’re walking to the ramp where you can get like coffee and stuff.
This stop is a blessing for all the folks that live out this way, in terms of getting to DC! Its seamless with the orange line (once it gets there) and my first trip from this stop was error free.

This review is strictly relative to signage in the upper P1 area of the facility. It’s awful and quite frankly, I had safety concerns.
So, for your safety, be aware that yes, there are 2 garages. Both are labeled exactly the same P1, G1, G2, G3, etc and BOTH are painted in the same colors — orange, blue, etc. The garage where you take a ticket is dirty and old, spots to park are tighter and the garage where you don’t take a ticket is clean, freshly painted and brightly lit.
Signage to the nice and brightly lit garage is clear and immediate, though the corridor to get to the elevator is not well lit at all and as a woman, alone, at night, lugging baggage around, I was genuinely concerned.
I never saw the signage to the other garage. After wandering around for 45 minutes, asking for help at the train station (lovely but couldn’t help me) I finally ran into a security guard who explained that there were 2 garages and helped me find my car.
— Signage to the trains needs to be clearer; I was not the only person trying to figure out where the trains were when I arrived.
— Signage to BOTH garages needs to be clearer.
— The P1 area needs to be better lit and security should be doing rounds more frequently at night.
— The labeling in the garages should absolutely be changed to different colors to avoid confusion.

We stayed in Chantilly during a vacation to DC. With traffic it took us about 30 minutes to get here from our hotel. $ 4.75 to park for the day in the garage and the end stop on the silver line. About an hour to get from here to the Smithsonian area. I was told not to stay so far out but we really didn’t mind because we could plan our day on the ride in and get a nice rest on the ride out. And sitting on the metro was so much better than sitting and crawling in the car.
We were pleased how easy it was to find parking and how easy the metro was to navigate. The DC metro is very easy to figure out.
We traveled generally during rush hour and it wasn’t too bad. Nice surprise to find the farmers market set up on Wednesday evening, we got some really yummy pastries that we ate back at our hotel after dinner.

Avoid the kiss and ride unless you want to waste 20 minutes trying to get in and out, especially during evening rush hour. Very poorly designed, too small tight and narrow. The park and ride needs those round blind corners mirrors at intersections to improve visibility.

I had the unfortunate pleasure of taking metro yesterday when it seemed like literally all of the lines were riddled with delays. This is a relatively new station so its nice, but there are a few issues I’ve noticed for the year that I’ve ridden the metro infrequently.
1. With as many people as this station services during peak times, why so few turnstyles? Have you looked at the number of cars in the garage?
2. Signage to the buses, is practially non-​existent. Uhh hello WMATA, it would help to direct riders, especially given the layout of this station.
3. Parking direction for the Metro parking facility. Be warned there are two underground garages, one is the Metro one, and the other one is for another parking company. I don’t know how the prices compare, but it would be helpful metro if you would clearly direct drivers a bit better to your facility unless you and Fairfax county don’t care about loss in revenue.
When metro is working which doesn’t seem to be that often these days its good. When its not working its painful and makes me angry yet again they are willing to increase fares for substandard service. But unfortunately for many in the DMV its a necessity so you just have to live with it.

We took the train on Labor Day into DC and it was nice that there were not a lot of people. I don’t think they are totally done with building the station but you can ride it into DC. We had no trouble finding parking that day. You have to cross a bridge from the parking garage which sucks but it’s totally walkable. We definitely enjoy taking the metro into DC rather than driving!

We drove here to check out the Silver Line Express bus to Dulles airport so typically, parking is free at the subway on weekends. So instead of making the priority privilege parking section free with the rest of the parking, we had no clue. We went through the gates and got a ticket, thinking when we exited that we would put the ticket in and it would say $ 0.00 or something. We did not know that this was a «priority special parking for rich people» or whatever the hell it was, but why the hell wasn’t it free for the weekends. Well, we knew something was weird when we didn’t see that many cars parked there and it kept saying «priority» or «privilege» or I don’t even remember exactly what. Anyway, I told my husband, let’s get out and sure enough we were charged $ 4.50 for driving around for 10 minutes!
I said this is not right, and then we kept driving in circles like fools and found the free regular people parking, which is on the lower below the ground level parking. We figured it was free because the parking gate was so obviously up.
I think this place is great because we can now just take a subway to this station and then take the Silver Line Express for $ 5 a person instead of paying $$$ for economy parking for more than 10 days. However, I think that they should have made those special priority privilege floors in the parking lot for free or had better signs telling people to go to the lower levels for FREE parking.

Happy to see a Metro close to home. Conveniently located off the Dulles Toll Road. Plenty of parking with more to come in the near future.
Underground parking with lots of cover and short walk from public parking to train stop.
Clean with bay for those that ride bicycles.

This stop opened in July 2014, so everything is still new, shiny and smells normal. There is an abundance of parking here; 6 levels of parking garage I believe. While the daily parking costs almost $ 5, there is also free public parking across the street from the metro (less than 5 minute walk). The spots obviously go like hot cakes in the mornings. I’d estimate there’s probably about 200 of these spots.
A word of warning, since this is the first/​last stop on a train, sometimes you’ll sit for 5 minutes waiting to take off on the sliver line. There are also several bus lines that drop off at this stop. Plenty of security and staff is actually friendly and helpful.

I know this station is new and everything, but with public transportation it’s all about giving clear guidance to commuters. Driving from Dulles airport, there weren’t clear directions on the street about how to actually get to the stop, since after the sign on the highway there were only signs for parking (not even anything for kiss and ride!). Once I took the elevator up, it was still unclear where to go because of some construction they were doing.
I think it’s unfair to give them a good rating because they’re new or go somewhere I’ve needed a metro stop, and better to judge them relative to other metro stops.

Thank GOD for silver line. I think this was a collective sigh of relief for all herndonites. After years of sitting through traffic on route 7, it feels like an amusement ride to carouse through tysons thirty feet off the ground.
Reston/​wiehle station is still under construction, and the sheltered parking lot involves this strangely acute uphill turn by the entrance that can be intimidating for large cars. Other than that, the layout is open enough that even during rush hour there isn’t too much congestion. There are also these nice artistic plastic pipe things. I’ve hard arguments about whether those were art or support for trees, and the verdict is still out. Let me know if you find out!
EDIT: The other day, I saw that two of the plastic pipes had snapped. Each of the pipes were threaded up to about waist height with iron rods. No trees. Mystery solved!

Station managers are actually quite helpful and courteous. Just need to get clarification on the station name because some of the train drivers pronounce it differently but it is all good.
Kids got special opening day pennants the day after the first day it was open. They also rode on the first day and were disappointed to not get them then. Metro folks made them smile when they were presented the next day.

Still lots of kinks to be worked out at this station, but weekend parking was easy (and FREE! Hooray!) in the parking garage off of Sunset Hills. We nearly missed the turn-​in, but hopefully permanent, more visible signage is on the way.
It’s a bit of a walk to the actual station — out of the garage, through the plaza, across the pedestrian bridge and down to the tracks. Several of the SmarTrip card swipers seemed to be malfunctioning, but WMATA staff were all around getting people through the turnstiles.
Maybe it was because it was a Saturday, but several trains arriving in the station were going out of service instead of picking up riders for the reverse trip.

Good station that is brand new, clean and awesome. The bus bays are well sheltered and well protected from the Sun, snow and rain. However, there needs to be more directional signs installed in the massive 7 level garage since it is rather confusing to find your way out. It is so much easier to go on down to DC to do things that it was in the not so distant past. Two thumbs up for a long job well done!!! ;) As for myself, I am 2014% glad that my good Reston friend Tree Fern Court no longer have to shlep ourselves on over to the Vienna metro station in order to meet our friend from manassas when we want to go out with him
On the Metro.