Metro News Release

For immediate release: July 17, 2003

Metro’s Virginia Square-GMU and L’Enfant Plaza station entrances will be closed this weekend as canopy installation continues over the station Entrances

This weekend, Metro’s L’Enfant Plaza (Maryland Avenue and 7th Street S.W.), and Virginia Square-GMU station entrances will be closed as personnel continue canopy construction at these locations. At these station entrances, personnel will construct the permanent structure frame for the canopy to be installed over the station entrance. The Virginia Square-GMU station entrance will be closed Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20. However, the station’s the elevator will be available for use, and free shuttle bus service will be provided between the Ballston-MU station and the Clarendon station, stopping at the Virginia Square-GMU station approximately every 8 minutes during Metrorail service hours while the entrance is closed. The L’Enfant Plaza station entrance at Maryland Ave. and 7th Street, S.W., will be closed on Saturday, July 19. However, the L’Enfant Plaza Mall Concourse, 9th and D Street, S.W., station entrance, and the D Street station entrance between 6th and 7th Streets, S.W., DOT Courtyard, will remain open for service. Shuttle bus service for Virginia Square-GMU will be available starting at 8 a.m. Conditions permitting, it is anticipated the Virginia Square-GMU entrance will reopen around 9 p.m. that same evening, at which time the shuttle bus service will be discontinued. Metro apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information on Metro, customers can call (202) 637-7000, TTY (202) 638-3780, or visit Metro’s Web site at www.metroopensdoors.com

News release issued on July 17, 2003.