Metro News Release

For immediate release: January 6, 2004

Metro joins in partnership promotion called Sister to Sister Woman’s Heart Day

Metro has joined in partnership with the MCI Center and the Sister to Sister National Woman’s Heart Day organization to promote National Woman’s Heart Day on February 20, 2004. The Sister to Sister National Woman’s Heart Day organization will print 100,000 inserts for distribution to season ticket holders to Georgetown, Washington Mystics, and Washington Wizards basketball games, as well as to the Capitals hockey games. The inserts will promote National Woman’s Heart Day and include the tag, "Take Metro to the game." Approximately three weeks before National Woman’s Heart Day, game fans will hear frequent promotions on ABC-TV 7 and News Channel 8 for game fans to take Metro to the Gallery Place-Chinatown station. Also, Sister to Sister Woman’s Heart Day will recognize Metro and its corporate logo in all paid advertising and press releases distributed to more than 1,000 general media; recognize Metro and its corporate logo on the Sister to Sister Woman’s Heart Day Web site and on the MCI Arena’s jumbotron during the event; and provide Metro a one-fourth page complimentary four-color ad space in the Sister to Sister Woman’s Heart Day program guide.In support of the cooperative promotion, WMATA will print and post 500 interior Metrobus cards and include the Sister to Sister Woman’s Heart Day event on WMATA’s Web site beginning three weeks prior to the promotion. Metro anticipates that 50 to 60 percent of fans attending these games will take Metro to MCI Center.

Upcoming Events Accessible by Metro

· January 7, 2004, 7:30 a.m., Department of System Safety and Risk Protection’s Emergency Management Outreach with Metro Transit Police and the Department of Communications, Metro Center Metrorail station.· January 16, 2004, 9 a.m., Metro’s Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at Metro headquarters, 600 Fifth Street, N.W. · January 26, 2004, 10 a.m., "Metro Matters" Hearing, D.C. Council Committee on Public Service, City Council Chambers.· January 30, 2004, Metro’s Participation in National Groundhog Job Shadow Day when youngsters shadow Metro employees.

Board Committee Meeting Scheduled

The Planning and Development Committee will convene on January 8, at 9 a.m. in the Meeting Room, adjacent to the lobby, at Metro headquarters, 600 Fifth Street, N.W. To hear a recording about the date and time of upcoming meetings, or the results of the last meeting, call 202-962-1055.

News release issued on January 6, 2004.