Track Maintenance to Affect Metro's Red and Orange Lines This Weekend

[Howard Hartman]

Track Maintenance to Affect Metro's
Red and Orange Lines This Weekend

Red and Orange Line riders should add at
least 20 minutes to their weekend travel

For immediate release: September 17, 2009

Track maintenance on the Red and Orange lines this weekend will cause inbound and outbound trains to take turns sharing one track. Customers should add at least 20 minutes of time to their trips.

Red Line Track Maintenance

Metrorail customers traveling between the Medical Center and Grosvenor-Strathmore Metrorail stations should add at least 20 minutes to their travel time for their trips because Metro will replace drainage pump cables. Trains will share one track between these locations from 9:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, to closing (midnight), on Sunday, Sept. 20.

Orange Line Track Maintenance

Metrorail customers traveling between the East Falls Church and Ballston-MU Metrorail stations should add at least 20 minutes of travel time to their trips because Metro will replace crossties, the track support structures. Trains will share one track between these locations from 9:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, to 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20.