Metro News Release

For immediate release: January 13, 2009

Cleveland Park Metrorail station reopened

Police were investigating suspicious vehcile on Connecticut Avenue

The Cleveland Park Metrorail station on the Red Line was temporarily closed for about an hour and a half this morning while the Metropolitan Police Department investigated a suspicious vehicle on Connecticut Avenue, NW. The incident began at 6:04 a.m. and the station reopened at 7:39 a.m.

Trains were moving through the station, but not servicing the platform. Nobody was permitted from entering or exiting the station during the police investigation, which closed Connecticut Avenue, NW, in both directions between Porter Street and Cathedral Avenue.

Metrobuses that passed along that stretch of Connecticut Avenue also were detoured.

Shuttle buses took rail customers from the Van Ness-UDC Metrorail station to the Woodley Park/Zoo-Adams Morgan Metrorail station to allow people to enter or exit the rail system adjacent to Cleveland Park, however those buses were detoured around the police activity, lengthening their trip between those stations.

News release issued at 7:46 am, January 13, 2009.