Metro News Release
For immediate release: June 2, 2005
Metro Announces Weekend Service Changes
Trains to Share One Track on the Red Line between Shady Grove and Grosvenor-Strathmore
This weekend, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) will conduct a major track rehabilitation project on the Red Line. To minimize customer inconvenience, this major rehabilitation project will occur this weekend, and the weekend of June 17-19, and customers are advised to plan accordingly.
The major rehabilitation project scheduled for this weekend is:
Twinbrook - Switch Replacement
When: Friday, June 3, 10 p.m., to Monday, June 6, 4 a.m.
Metro personnel will modernize the switch outside the Twinbrook Metrorail station on the Red Line. A switch or "interlocking" is an intersection in the track, where trains can "switch" from one track to another, depending on their destination and route. This rehabilitation work must be done as a preventive measure to assure service quality and safe operation through Twinbrook.
To perform this work, Metro will institute the following weekend service pattern:
All Metrorail Red Line service will operate every 28 minutes between Shady Grove and Grosvenor-Strathmore and share one track.
All Red Line trains operating between Grosvenor-Strathmore and Glenmont will operate every 14 minutes.
All Red Line trains operating in the downtown core between Grosvenor-Strathmore and Silver Spring will operate every 7 minutes between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
Patrons from the Shady Grove to White Flint areas are encouraged to bypass the track project and use the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metrorail station, as trains will operate on a greater frequency from this station.
Patrons attending the Race For the Cure event Saturday morning and coming from the areas between Shady Grove and White Flint who are unable to travel to Grosvenor-Strathmore, the following Red Line trains will depart the Shady Grove Metrorail station: 4:54 a.m.; 5:08 a.m.; 5:22 a.m.; 5:36 a.m.; 5:50 a.m.; 6:04 a.m.; 6:18 a.m.; 6:32 a.m.; 7 a.m.; 7:28 a.m.; 7:56 a.m. (All times are approximate)
Parking is free at Metro operated lots on the weekend, and the Grosvenor-Strathmore parking facility has 1,894 parking spaces.
To alert customers about these rehabilitation projects, regular station and train announcements will be made. Additional information will be available on Metro’s Web site at www.metroopensdoors.com.
The Ride Guide, located on Metro’s Web site, will not reflect the impact of this work on its schedules. Customers should allow more time for their trips because of this work. For more information on traveling by Metrobus or Metrorail, customers may call (202) 637-7000 or TTY (202) 638-3780.
News release issued on June 2, 2005.