Metro News Release

For immediate release: January 12, 2009

Metro's Judiciary Square and Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metrorail stations to close early on Inauguration Day

Customers advised to use other stations that day

The Judiciary Square Metrorail station on the Red Line and the Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St Convention Center Metrorail station on the Yellow and Green lines will close early for security reasons on Inauguration Day.

The Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St Convention Center Metrorail station will close at 7:30 a.m., and the Judiciary Square Metrorail station will close at 4 p.m., due to their proximity to locations hosting Inaugural Balls. Both stations are scheduled to reopen at 5 a.m., on Wednesday, January 21.

Metro encourages people to use nearby stations such as the Metro Center, Gallery Pl-Chinatown or Union Station Metrorail stations.

People can also sign up for special e-alerts, dedicated to the Inauguration, on Metro’s Web site at http://www.wmata.com/inauguration. E-alerts will be issued when Metro has news relating to service for the Inauguration, and, perhaps more importantly, when there may be service disruptions during the course of the four-day Inauguration Weekend.

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News release issued at 1:54 pm, January 12, 2009.