Metro News Release

For immediate release: December 6, 2007

Pentagon Metrorail station temporarily closed

The Pentagon Metrorail station was closed at 2:42 p.m. this afternoon to allow law enforcement officials to investigate a report of a suspicious package at the station near the faregates.

Trains are not passing through the station. Instead, Blue and Yellow Line trains are turning back at the stations on each side of the Pentagon Metrorail station–at Pentagon City and Arlington Cemetery Metrorail stations–and at L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail station.

Free shuttle buses are available at L’Enfant Plaza, Arlington Cemetery, Pentagon City and Pentagon Metrorail stations to get customers around the incident.

News release issued at 12:00 am, December 6, 2007.