Metro News Release
For immediate release: June 26, 2006
High water continues to impact Metro service
Archives station now open
Archives-Navy Memorial station reopened at 9:30 a.m. as trains moved between the Gallery Place-Chinatown and L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail stations for the first time today. Meanwhile the Federal Triangle Metrorail station remains closed due to flooding on the tracks. In addition, Metrobus and MetroAccess vehicles are also being impacted by the flooded roadways.
Water receded between the Braddock Road and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Metrorail stations and service was restored between those stations at 8:30 a.m.
Metrobus routes that are heavily impacted by flooded roads include Route 29 and Lockwood Drive - Z Line; Beauregard and Blanch - 7 Line; Columbia Pike and Frederick - 16 Line; Hamilton and Ager Road - R Line; Nannie Helen-Burroughs and Kenilworth Avenues - U Line and V7; and Route 93 and Lanham-Severn Road - B27 Line.
There is no rail service between Metro Center and Smithsonian Metrorail stations on the Orange and Blue lines due to the closure of Federal Triangle station. Free shuttle buses are moving passengers between Smithsonian, Federal Triangle and Metro Center. The Federal Triangle station typically has 10,800 people enter that station on a typical weekday.
There have been 76 free shuttle buses assisting passengers at these locations throughout the morning: The Gallery Place-Chinatown station shuttle buses are located at 7th and F Streets, N.W; the L’Enfant Plaza shuttle buses are located at 7th and D Streets, S.W.; the McPherson Square shuttle buese are located at 14th and I Streets, N.W.; the Smithsonian shuttle buses are located at 7th Street and Independence Avenue, N.W.; the Metro Center shuttle buses are located at 11th and G Streets, N.W.; and the Federal Triangle shuttle buses are located at 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
The Huntington Metrorail bus bays reopened at 9:30 a.m. Buses had been dropping off customers at King Street Metrorail station instead of at Huntington due to high water.
News release issued on June 26, 2006.