Metro News Release
For immediate release: April 4, 2008
Metro reminds customers that the Nationals play Monday evening at Nationals Park
Metro trains and stations will be crowded Monday evening when the Washington Nationals host the Florida Marlins at 7:10 p.m., at Nationals Park. Metro is preparing to handle the anticipated crowds with extra trains and personnel, and reminding everyone to have enough money on their farecard or SmarTrip card for their return trip.
On Monday, April 7, Metro will operate normal afternoon rush hour service on all rail lines leading up to the 7:10 p.m. game.
Fans going to the game are reminded to use both entrances at the Navy Yard Metrorail station on the Green Line. The station’s newly expanded west entrance at Half and M Street, S.E., is one block from Nationals Park and can accommodate up to 15,000 people per hour, compared with 5,000 per hour before the renovation. It has five more fare gates and two more vending machines, a new elevator between the entrance and the mezzanine and a new elevator and staircase between the mezzanine and the platform. The station’s east entrance, is two blocks away at New Jersey Avenue S.E.
Due to anticipated crowds on Monday evening, Metro will have additional station managers, rail supervisors, and Transit Police at the Gallery Place-Chinatown, L’Enfant Plaza and Navy Yard Metrorail station to assist customers with service questions, and how to get to and from the ballpark. Customers will be reminded to spread out along the platform to board six-and eight-car trains.
Metro will sell specially designed commemorative Washington Nationals SmarTrip cards from 5 to 8 p.m., at the Navy Yard Metrorail station for $5. Customers will need to add fare to the cards.
The newly expanded N22 Metrobus route from the Navy Yard Metrorail station to the Eastern Market and Union Station Metrorail stations will operate every 10 minutes through 10:30 p.m., and is an option for people who don’t want to transfer to one of the other Metrorail lines.
After the game, Metro will operate up to 10 extra trains on the Green Line, four extra trains on the Red Line, and five extra trains on the Orange and Blue lines to get people home.
Fans are reminded to exercise care and caution when traveling through the Gallery Place-Chinatown and L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail stations before the game as crowded conditions will exist during afternoon rush hour.
Metro reminds all patrons attending the baseball game to have the appropriate value on their SmarTrip cards to exit Metro parking facilities after the game and to check their farecard to ensure they have enough money to enter the Metrorail system.
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News release issued at 10:04 am, April 4, 2008.