Metro News Release

For immediate release: November 4, 2004

Special Red Line service arranged to get around collision site

Major delays are expected this morning on the Red Line due to yesterday’s collision of two trains at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail station. The station reopened this morning at 5:15 a.m., however Red Line customers should plan additional time for their morning and afternoon commutes.

Trains will single-track from Van Ness-UDC to Dupont Circle Metrorail stations throughout the day. Due to this limited service, eight-car trains will be operating along the Red Line all day long. Trains will depart Shady Grove every six minutes and they will depart Silver Spring and Glenmont every 4 and a half minutes. This level of service will remain in place until 10:30 a.m. Trains will depart every eight minutes after 10:30 a.m. until the afternoon peak resumes.

Free supplemental bus service will be offered from Friendship Heights to Farragut Square. Buses will stop at all Red Line stations along that route.

Red Line customers who enter the Metrorail system at a Red Line station will be charged only off-peak fares throughout the day--including both the morning and afternoon peak periods.

Yesterday afternoon two Metrorail trains collided at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail station. A six-car train that was not carrying passengers because it was not in revenue service drifted backward and collided with a six-car train that was servicing the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail station. Twenty individuals with minor, non-life threatening injuries were treated and released yesterday from local hospitals.

The cause of the collision is not yet known and is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.

News release issued on November 4, 2004.