Metro News Release

For immediate release: November 12, 2003

Two Virginia Metrobus lines to be rerouted

Two Virginia Metrobus lines will be rerouted starting Monday, November 17--the Richmond Highway Line (Route 9A) and the Wilson Boulevard-Fairfax Line (Routes 1C, 1Z). Due to the completion of the Inova Fair Oaks Hospital expansion project, the hospital administration has requested that Metrobus routes 1C, 1Z, and the Fairfax Connector Route 605 be rerouted to serve the new entrance. Metrobus routes will be rerouted at the hospital as follows.Wilson Boulevard-Fairfax Line, Routes 1C, 1Z, Westbound. The Metrobus route will operate on its current route to the intersection of Alder Woods and Joseph Siewick Drives, then turn left onto Joseph Siewick Drive, left at Sunrise Assisted Living Center, right at the roadway to the hospital’s main entrance to the bus stop on the outer roadway at the crosswalk to the main entrance. Customers will be discharged at the stop and the buses will continue on the roadway and turn right onto Joseph Siewick Boulevard, left to Ox Trail, continue on Rugby Road, left onto Alder Woods Drive to the current terminal stand on the south side of Alder Woods Drive, east of Rugby Road.Wilson Boulevard-Fairfax Line, Routes 1C, 1Z, Eastbound. From the terminal stand on the south side of Alder Woods Drive, east of Rugby Road, Metrobuses will continue on Alder Woods Drive, turn left onto Joseph Siewick Drive, left onto the next roadway at the Sunrise Assisted Living Center, right onto the roadway to the main hospital entrance to the bus stop on the outer roadway at the crosswalk to the main entrance, board customers at the bus stop, continue on the roadway to Joseph Siewick Boulevard, right onto Joseph Siewick Boulevard, left to exit the roadway to Ox Trail, left onto Ox Trail, continue on Rugby Road, turn left onto the Fairfax County Parkway, and continue the current route to the Ballston-MU Metrorail station. The Army Materiel Command in Fort Belvoir is relocating from its current headquarters to a new facility and a rerouting of weekday Route 9A trips at Fort Belvoir has been established to serve the new facility at Gunston Road and 5th Street. This change will discontinue weekday service via the current terminal at 16th Street and Belvoir Road. Alternative service via 16th Street and Belvoir Road is being provided by an internal base shuttle bus. The Route 9A weekday Metrobus trips will be rerouted as follows:Southbound (9A to Lorton VRE Station). Metrobuses will follow the current route to the intersection of Richmond Highway and Belvoir Road, then turn left at Belvoir Road through the main gate, continue on Belvoir Road, turn left onto 12th Street, turn left onto Farrell Road (Dewitt Hospital), turn left onto Belvoir Road, turn right onto 12th Street, turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left onto the parking lot roadway opposite 5th Street, turn left through the parking lot, turn left onto Jackson Loop (north), turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left onto 12th Street, turn left onto Belvoir Road, turn left onto Richmond Highway, and continue on the current route to the Lorton VRE Station. Southbound (9A/ to Fort Belvoir). Metrobuses will follow the current route to the intersection of Richmond Highway and Belvoir Road, then turn left onto Belvoir Road, turn left onto 12th Street, turn left onto Farrell Road (Dewitt Hospital), turn left onto Belvoir Road, turn right onto 12th Street, turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left into the parking lot roadway opposite 5th Street, turn left through the parking lot, turn right onto Jackson Loop (north), continue to the new terminal stand on the north side of Jackson Loop (north), west of Gunston Road at the far side of the entrance to Building 1425.Northbound (From Lorton VRE Station). Metrobuses will follow the current route to the intersection of Richmond Highway and Belvoir Road, then turn right onto Belvoir Road through the main gate, turn right onto 12th Street, turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left at the parking lot roadway opposite 5th Street, turn left through the parking lot, turn left onto Jackson Loop (north), turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left onto 12th Street, turn left onto Farrell Road (Dewitt Hospital), continue on Belvoir Road, turn right onto Richmond Highway, and continue the current route to the Pentagon Metrorail station.Northbound (From Fort Belvoir). From the new terminal stand on the north side of the Jackson loop (north), west of Gunston Road, buses will turn left on the next roadway between Buildings 1414 and 1416, turn left onto Jackson Loop (south), turn right onto Gunston Road, turn left onto 12th Street, turn left onto Farrell Road (Dewitt Hospital), continue on Belvoir Road, turn right onto Richmond Highway, and continue the current route to the Pentagon Metrorail station or Potomac Yard.

News release issued on November 12, 2003.