Metro News Release

For immediate release: December 6, 2004

Pentagon Metrorail station currently closed

The Pentagon Metrorail station is currently closed while an investigation is being conducted into a possible hazmat situation. The station closed at 10:08 a.m. No trains are permitted through the station so a bus bridge has been established to take customers around the incident. Buses are picking up customers at L’Enfant Plaza, Pentagon City and Arlington Cemetery Metrorail stations. The Pentagon Transit Center is also temporarily closed. Buses that usually pick up and discharge customers at the Pentagon Transit Center are instead doing so at the nearby Pentagon City Metrorail station. The Pentagon Metrorail station typically serves about 15,000 people entering the station and 15,000 people exiting the station during an average weekday. Updated information will be posted on the Metro web site as it becomes available, www.metroopensdoors.com.

News release issued on December 6, 2004.