Metro News Release
For immediate release: November 5, 2004
Metro details Red Line service plans for Friday morning
Major delays are expected today, Friday, November 5, on the Red Line due to Wednesday’s collision of two trains at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail station. Red Line customers should plan additional time for their morning commutes.
Metro will continue operating 8-car trains and single-tracking on the Red Line between the Dupont Circle and Van Ness-UDC Metrorail stations. Trains are servicing the Woodley Park-Zoo Adams Morgan station. Trains will depart Shady Grove every six minutes and they will depart Glenmont and Silver Spring every 4 and one half minutes.
Free supplemental one-way shuttle bus service will be provided every five minutes from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m., between the Friendship Heights and Farragut North Metrorail stations with stops at Tenleytown, Van Ness-UDC, Cleveland Park, Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle Metrorail stations. [Please note, this service will run in a one-way direction. Buses will return express back for staging.]
Red Line customers who enter the Metrorail system at a Red Line station will be charged only off-peak fares throughout the morning peak period.
Wednesday 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.
Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board completed its on-site investigation, and turned over the incident location to Metro, allowing for clean-up of the location. As of Friday morning, only four of the 12 rail cars involved in the incident remained in the station.
The cause of the collision is not yet known and is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
News release issued on November 5, 2004.