Metro News Release

For immediate release: August 17, 2005

Metro Announces Additional Weekend Service Changes

Track Work to Affect Customers on the Blue, Orange and Yellow Lines

This weekend, in addition to the service disruption on the Red Line between Grosvenor-Strathmore and Medical Center, Metro will also conduct maintenance work on the Blue, Orange, and Yellow lines. Customers traveling on these rail lines should plan accordingly and add extra time into their schedules.

Metro advises patrons attending Saturday evening’s D.C. United soccer game at RFK Stadium and Sunday evening’s World Wrestling Entertainment event at the MCI Center to add extra time into their schedules while traveling to these events due to single track operations on these rail lines.

The major rehabilitation projects scheduled for this weekend are:

When: Saturday, August 20, 12:30 a.m. to Monday, August 22, 5 a.m.

Metro personnel will continue to modernize the switch outside the Stadium-Armory Metrorail station on the Blue and Orange Line.

To perform this work, Metro will institute the following Blue and Orange Line weekend service pattern:

All Orange Line trains will share one track between Eastern Market and Cheverly, and all Blue Line trains will share one track between Eastern Market and Addison Road-Seat Pleasant.

All Blue and Orange Line trains will operate every 30 minutes through the single track work location.

Every other Orange Line train will terminate at Eastern Market and return to Vienna/Fairfax-GMU, and every other Blue Line train will terminate at Eastern Market and return to Franconia-Springfield.

When: Saturday, August 20, and Sunday, August 21, from sunrise to sunset.

All Yellow Line trains will share one track between L’Enfant Plaza and the Pentagon while Metro personnel perform the annual routine bridge structure inspection on the Potomac River bridge.

Customers should add five to 10 minutes of additional travel time on the Yellow Line during the day.

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 August 17, 2005.