Metro News Release
For immediate release: October 5, 2004
This Columbus Day Weekend Track Work Will Shut Down A Portion of Metro’s Red Line
Weekend Track Work To Support The New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metrorail Station
In preparation for the opening of the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metrorail station on the Red Line at the end of this year, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) will conduct major track work on the Red Line between Union Station and Fort Totten, resulting in a partial shutdown of the Red Line during the three-day Columbus Day holiday weekend. Customers are advised to plan accordingly. The Schedule Below is the scheduled dates and times for the Columbus Day Weekend partial shutdown between Union Station and Fort Totten:
- Friday, October 8, (8 p.m.) to Tuesday, October 12, 5 a.m.
- Over the long holiday weekend, personnel will install a new double crossover, (rail switch) between Union Station and New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metrorail station. This double crossover is the portion of track that allows trains to switch from one track to another if there is a service delay or emergency.
- Metrorail Red Line service will be suspended between Union Station and Fort Totten, resulting in the closure of the Rhode Island Avenue and Brookland-CUA Metrorail stations.
- Metrorail Red Line service will operate between Shady Grove and Union Station, and between Glenmont and Fort Totten.
- Free shuttle buses will operate every 5 minutes between Union Station and Fort Totten with stops at the Brookland-CUA and Rhode Island Avenue Metrorail stations. Customers who normally board at Brookland-CUA or Rhode Island Avenue will need to take a free shuttle bus from those stations to either Union Station or Fort Totten, depending on their direction of travel.
- Metrorail Red Line trains will operate every 8-10 minutes during the day, and every 12-15 minutes during the evening between Shady Grove and Union Station, and between Glenmont and Fort Totten..
- Customers traveling between Glenmont and Takoma on the Red Line can transfer to the Green Line at Fort Totten, travel to Gallery Place-Chinatown, and transfer back to the Red Line toward Shady Grove. Customers traveling on the Red Line to Takoma and all stops to Glenmont can transfer to the Green Line at Gallery Place-Chinatown, travel to Fort Totten, and transfer back to the Red Line.
News release issued on October 5, 2004.