Metro News Release

For immediate release: July 23, 2004

Metro announces weekend single tracking on the Red Line

This weekend, Metro will perform preventative track maintenance, and preparation work for the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metrorail station on the Red Line. During this work period, customers’ trips will take 10-15 minutes longer than usual. Please note the following schedule for this weekend:" Red Line - On Saturday, July 24, from opening (7 a.m.) to 6 p.m., trains will share one track between Shady Grove and Twinbrook. [To help expedite the flow of rail travel, every other Red Line traveling in the direction of Shady Grove will terminate at Twinbrook and return to downtown Washington.]" Red Line - On Sunday, July 25, from opening (7 a.m.) to closing (midnight), trains will share one track between Union Station and Rhode Island Avenue. To perform this work, Metro must single-track trains - operate trains traveling in opposite directions alternately on the same track. On Saturday, Metro personnel will perform routine track maintenance between Shady Grove and Twinbrook. On Sunday, between Union Station and Rhode Island Avenue, Metro personnel will install new communications cables for the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metrorail station and therefore, it will require personnel to be in key safety-sensitive areas of the rail system. For more information on traveling by Metrorail or Metrobus, customers may call (202) 637-7000, TTY at (202) 638-3780.

News release issued on July 23, 2004.